A/N: Here is Chapter 7 :D It's a little more flashback focused, because it's a bit of a filler chapter, but you get another update so quickly so be happy ;)

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"Go and get Dani and her parents, mija, and we can head to the park," Mami told me. I nodded, smiling to myself as I left my house and walked unceremoniously across our lawns to Dani's house. I didn't even knock when I walked in, which kind of annoyed Dani's parents, but they were used to it after all of these years.

"Mr. and Mrs. Tyler?" I called into the house. "Dani?"

Dani came down the stares and flashed me a smile. "Hey, babe," she said quietly, coming up to me and stealing a kiss just before her parents came around the corner. Mr. Tyler was carrying a couple of foldable lawn chairs, and Mrs. Tyler had a big bag of stuff.

"Dani, are you ready to head to the park?" her dad asked, and she excused herself for just a minute to grab her bag upstairs.

When she got back down, she confirmed that she was ready with a clear, "Yep!"

The four of us went first back over to the Lopez residence, where we met up with my parents. Both of them had similar things in hand as we left the house. The park where the Fourth of July fireworks were supposed to happen was just about a ten minute walk from our neighborhood. We did, after all, live in a tiny neighborhood.

Dani and I were walking a good distance in front of our parents, so that we could talk without being overheard. "So, where are we going to sneak away to during the fireworks?"

I shrugged. "Where can we go? The whole park is going to be littered with prying eyes."

"Yeah, but we don't have to stay there. We can tell them that we're going to the other end or something, they'll never know we left," Dani insisted, nudging me and giving me her puppy dog eyes. I laughed lightly and rolled my eyes at her.

"Tell me where you want to go, and we'll go," I gave in, the smile I had threatening to take over every inch of my face.

"Well," Dani started, "there's a convenient store across the street from the park. The kind with the flat roof."

I raised my eyebrow at my girlfriend, pretty sure that I knew what she was suggesting. "When's the last time you climbed up smooth concrete?" I teased.

"I climb up the side of your house all the time," Dani reminded me.

"Doesn't count. There is tons of shit back there to help you up," I reminded her.

"Yeah, and I'm sure there's a ton of shit behind the store that we can climb up. Come on, it'll be a great view, and no one else will be there," Dani pleaded, giving me her puppy dog eyes again.

I huffed, even though I wasn't frustrated. "Sure."

Dani gave me her signature grin of excitement, the one that made her eyes open wider and her eyebrows move up a little bit. It was adorable, actually, and I could barely keep myself from kissing her.

We spent the early part of the night with our parents, eating the barbeque that the people hosting the whole thing were giving out for a cheap price. When the fireworks were getting nearer, we both made up our quick excuse for our parents.

"Hey, we're going to go watch from the other side of the park," Dani said, looking at both of our parents.

"You don't want to stay over here with us?" my Mami asked us jokingly.

"We'll be back before y'all leave, okay?" I said, ignoring my mother.

"Sure," Mr. Tyler approved, giving us a nod. If Dani's dad approved something, you could bet that any of the rest of them would've. He was, after all, the biggest asshole of them all. Not that my parents were really assholes, though.

"Thanks, dad!" Dani exclaimed, and then she and I turned around and bolted off across the park.

And then across the street to the still open convenient store. We made our way around to the back and found a perfectly sized, closed dumpster, which we only had to scoot around a little bit, to climb on top of and then pull ourselves up onto the roof.

Dani went first, helping me up after her. The roof wasn't entirely large, of course, because the building wasn't incredibly big. It was cool, though, to be on top of it. We could see the whole park across the street.

We ventured over to the front of the roof, and carefully sat down on the concrete. "They're starting!" Dani squealed with excitement, grabbing my hand. I smiled at the touch, and squeezed her hand in mine.

The fireworks flew up very high, so we laid back on the roof to see them. I cuddled into my girlfriend, and we looked up into the now smoky sky at the exploding fireworks. I liked fireworks a lot, because they gave me a similar thrill to the one that I really only ever got when I was with Dani.

When they started the grand finale of fireworks, which were the specifically red, white and blue ones, I turned a little into Dani and pressed our lips together.

"Mm," she mumbled against my lips as she pressed deeper into the kiss. Her hand was on my cheek in a second, and my tongue slipped into her mouth.

When the last firework went off, the boom startled us and we broke apart, squealing. We broke out into a fit of laughter after that, and we could hear all of the people in the park applauding and cheering now that the fireworks were finished.

"Hey, is someone up there?" came a guy's voice from behind the store.

"He must've noticed our handiwork," I muttered after our laughing had been cut off. I was, of course, referring to us having moved the dumpster.

"Come on," Dani whispered, giggling as she grabbed my hand and pulled me up. We heard the guy trying to get on top of the dumpster, so we hurried to the side of the building and carefully dropped off of the roof and onto the ground.

"Hey!" we heard another guy yell, but we had already taken off at a full sprint back to the park, laughing uncontrollably.

It was moments like these that I knew better than I knew myself that I loved Dani. She was my everything, and I would be nothing without her.

I groaned as I woke up in an uncomfortable position. A female voice was speaking loudly around me. "Thank you for flying with us today, we have reached Austin, Texas."

I groaned again, realizing that everyone was getting up and getting their bags. I must've slept through the whole flight, because the last thing I remembered was sitting down by the window.

I hastily grabbed my under the seat bag and then squeezed my way into the aisle. Sure, it wasn't the nicest thing to do, but I wasn't anxious to stay on this plane any longer than I had to.

Luckily, I was off and out of the airport in no less than ten minutes. I thought about trying to catch a bus or pay a taxi to bring me out to my old home, but I wasn't sure that I wanted to be stuck in that place without an immediate way to leave.

So I ended up having to rent a car from the airport's car rental place. I only took a break to pee before continuing my journey home. I didn't know why I had to go back, not really anyway. I just knew that I had to.

I spent a couple hours driving out to the small town that I once called home. When I got there, it was getting dark out, but I knew my way through the place like the back of my hand. I drove past the park that I'd dreamed about on the plane, along with the convenient store. I drove past a few other things, and then found myself in my old neighborhood.

I bit my tongue as I parked myself in front of my house, along the edge of the road. Since I left for college after high school, I hadn't come back here once. I had barely even spoken to my parents, honestly. I had never wanted to look back, not in any way, shape or form. And now I was back.

I avoided looking over at Dani's house, and approached my parent's front door. Taking a deep breath, I knocked lightly on the door.

A few seconds later, the door opened. My mom stood in front of me, her eyes wide. They filled up with tears, and then she wrapped her arms around me. "Mija! Why haven't you called in so long? What are you doing here?"

"I'm visiting," I answered, hugging her back tightly. "And I know I haven't called, I'm so sorry."

"Pablo! Get down here!" Mami yelled toward the upstairs as she pulled away from me. "Do you have a hotel, Santana?"

I shook my head. "I'll get a room later."

"You'll do no such thing," my Mami insisted. "You're staying here."

"I really don't think that's a good idea," I argued, because there was something about my room that I didn't want to be around right now, stuff I knew was probably still there after all of these years. Probably the things that reminded me of Dani. In my last year of high school, I had kept all of those things around. I had thought she would come back, at the time. When I graduated, I left all of those things. I had made it my mission to forget her.

I'd almost succeeded. "No, no. No daughter of mine will be sleeping in a hotel when we're right here. Your room is still there, too, so don't worry."

"Who's worrying?" I joked, biting my lip nervously.

I talked to my parents for a little while, telling them about how I felt like I was having general life problems and needed a break, and how I'd just moved before coming down here. After we talked, I went upstairs to my old room. I kept the lights off and just went straight to sleep. I would deal will all of the memories in the morning.

DANI

I got to Austin a little late in the day, and rented a car to drive all the way down to the place I'd run away from eleven years ago. I couldn't stop freaking out the entire time I drove. I kept telling myself that I should've made Davis come with me, but then I reminded myself why I hadn't in the first place.

After a long drive, which consisted of my almost losing my sanity more than a couple of times, I pulled into the parking lot of the small hotel in our town. It was old and rundown and totally not the place a soon to be celebrity would usually stay, but it was all that was here. And there was no way I would be staying at my own place.

It was a small town, so I wasn't surprised when I walked into the place and got an immediate reaction from the person at the desk of the hotel. "Dani Tyler?"

I gave the older woman a half smile. "I need a room please."

"Sure," she said, her eyes stuck on me weird. "Where you been all these years?" She had a thick Texan accent, something I'd nearly forgotten in California.

"Different places," I answered, shrugging.

She seemed to understand that I'd rather not be interrogated on my past at the moment, and gave me a room key, which I happily paid for. Then I went to one of the few rooms in the place, the one matched with my key, and went inside.

I dropped my stuff by the bed and then flopped onto it. Taking a deep breath, I closed my eyes without even taking off my makeup. I'd been driving all day, and I needed to sleep.

Tomorrow would be the day that I would see my parents again for the first time in eleven years. I would tell them all about what happened to me and why I left. I'd probably get lectured or yelled at, and the idea made me start to tear up.

Don't cry, Dani. Not yet.

I'd probably tell them about my single, maybe about my new best friend. I had a feeling that things were going to be crazy tomorrow.

So I took a deep breath and cuddled into the cold blankets under me. I might as well get some rest while I was here.

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