p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"strongemBest Friend?/em/strong/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"After the dispute was settled, there was a nerve-wracking call. Chase looked over to the computer and opened up a new mission file. "You guys go, I'll watch over the lab." I said and the three other bionic kids left immediately for Alaska./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I walked around the lab tapping on the desk and stuff, trying someway to stop the boredom. Somewhere between the time they left and the time they got back, someone knocked me out. Something cold and hard hit the back of my head and I passed out very quickly./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"When I woke up, I was against a wall, chains holding me back. I struggled and fought against the chains, trying to break free. After a few minutes, I gave up and sighed. The metal was made out of nickel, the one thing that makes me have an allergic reaction to it./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I sighed as my wrists and ankles started to get itchy and swell up a bit. I groaned in frustration and tried to speed myself out of the chains, but that didn't work either. Then I scanned the room for keys. I didn't find any./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Having fun sweetheart?" a voice asked and I frowned. "Who are you?! What do you want with me?!" I yelled and the person came out of the shadows. "Aww, c'mon Dani, you're taking all the fun out of this!" The person said and laughed underneath a mask. "Who are you?!" I yelled and the person took his mask off. "Your worst enemy."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I lifted my head to see a teenager around the age of 18 standing right in front of me./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Miss me?" he asked./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I tilted my head to the side in a questioning manner./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""If I missed you, wouldn't you think I would be happier to see you?" I asked in a 'duh' manner./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Alright, Dani. Enough with the games." he said and I rolled my eyes./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Just unlock me. I promise I won't run away." I said and he nodded, pulling the keys out of his pocket and unlocking me. I jumped into his arms as he wrapped me up in a hug./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"He laughed, "So you are happy to see me then."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I smiled into the crook of his neck, "I'm always happy to see you. I wish you hadn't locked me up first, but yes, I am very happy to see you." I cupped his face, "Still as handsome as ever," I said quietly and he genuinely smiled at me./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Well, you still are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen," he said and I giggled./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""You're such a dork," I muttered nuzzling my face into the crook of his neck, my legs wrapped around his abdomen as he held me up./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Yeah, well, I guess you rubbed off on me a little bit after all those years," he said and I smiled./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Yeah, yeah, I get it."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Suddenly, my back made slight impact with the brick wall behind me. "You know, I'm not sure if you've missed me, but I certainly have missed you," he said and I smiled./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Yeah, I've missed you too," I said sadly and looked him in the eyes. "I just wish we had more time right now. But Bree and Adam and Chase are going to come looking for me and I don't want you getting hurt."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"He smiled at me with sadness in his eyes, "Can we make the best of this moment then? Because as long as you're mine, I feel like I'm on top of the world."I nodded and leaned in, my lips brushing against his for a mere second before pulling away. "You little tease," he muttered and cupped my jaw, pushing his lips against my own./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I ran my hands through his hair and he deepened the kiss. I pulled away after another minute of kissing him and looked into his eyes. "My, my, my, look at that. Lukey Pookey has gotten good at kissing!" I teased him and he blushed./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Yeah, well, I knew I was going to see you soon enough," he mumbled and looked down at the ground./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I tilted his head up so he was looking at me. "No need to be ashamed, I like that you put effort into it. And besides, you're cute when you blush." He blushed again and I smiled, wrapping my arms around his neck and resting my head on his shoulder./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Dani, I love you," Luke told me and I looked up at him./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""I love you too, Lukey. But you know that this can't be a constant thing between us," I said as we were now sitting on the couch, me in his lap./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"He pushed off the couch and spun around, giving me an angry look. "Why not? We can make this work, just you and me, on our own, no distractions." He said./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I giggled, "Because Luke, we just can't. You know why and I know why, I don't want to explain it again. Luke, I love you, I really really do. I just- I can't take the chance on losing you."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""So I'm just a one-time fling, huh? I'm basically your rebound." I looked away from him. "Dani, I can't keep doing this. I can't keep getting my hopes up thinking that you may just one day run into my arms. It's either that we're together or we're not. Your choice." he said sternly and looked at me with his large, beautiful green eyes./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""I-I... I guess this is goodbye then," I said, standing up and he nodded, turning away from me. "Luke," I whispered and rubbed his arm. He looked away from me. I sighed and walked towards the door, about to take a step through when I rethought my decision. "You know what, no. I don't care what everybody will say. You're mine and I'm not letting you go." I said and walked back at a quick pace. I pushed my lips to his./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""You are never getting away from me ever again," he said and I smiled as he wrapped me up in his arms./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Dani, move out of the way." Chase said harshly from the doorway./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I spun around standing protectively in front of Luke. "Chase, you don't know what you're doing." I said as he came closer to us with a new device that Davenport must have built. "/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Yes, I do. It's called protecting you from impostors," he said and I gave him a confused look./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Impostor?" I muttered and looked behind me at Luke and saw his eye twitch. My eyes went wide as I jumped behind Chase who used the device in his hands to take down Impostor Luke. I knelt beside the slowly melting figure and saw the meal structure that replaced bones and the wires connecting to something else. Chase put a hand on my shoulder and I looked up at him. "I just hope the real Luke is all right," I said and he nodded./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""I'm sure he is, now c'mon, let's go home." he said and helped me up. I took Chase's hand and rested my head on his shoulder as we walked home./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Where were you guys, we were so worried!" Davenport said and I smiled sadly. "I was hanging out with an imposter who pretended to be my best friend. But Chase came in and saved the day," I said and stood on my tip-toes, kissing Chase's cheek. I let go of his hand and sat on the couch, grabbing a pillow and hugging it tightly, bringing my knees to my chest./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Hey, you ok?" Chase asked, sitting down next to me after everybody left the living room./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""The sad thing is that I emactually/em believed it was him, that he was emactually/em there in front of me, alive and healthy. That he really did care enough for me to come back." I said./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Chase gave me a confused look. "Is that what you were talking about, when you said why you couldn't stay with him?"/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I nodded, "You know, I would be really mad at you right now that you overheard the conversation if this were a normal situation. But it's not. So, thank you." I smiled at him. It was weak, but it was still a smile./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""It's no biggie. I'm just glad you're safe. So this Luke guy must be pretty special to you, huh?" he asked and I nodded. "He's my bestfriend in the world. The last time I saw him, he was visiting Douglas for something and told me not to wait for him and never came back. He just left like he had never been part of my life. I'm not even sure what he's doing now."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""You know, the saying goes, 'If you love something, set it free, if it comes back, It's meant to be.' Maybe he wasn't your meant-to-be. Maybe he was just a bump in the road." He said and took my hand./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Thanks Chase," I said and rested my head on his shoulder./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Don't thank me, love can blind even the smartest person in the world," he said and I smiled./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""That's your title, not mine. You can keep it." I said./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"He smiled, "We'll share it."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I nodded and moved closer to him. "I'm cold," I whispered and he wrapped his arms around me./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""That better?" he asked and I nodded. "Much."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I woke up shivering, and that's all I knew until a strong -and warm- pair of arms wrapped around me. I relaxed into them, my eyes still closed and turned in to the pair of arms, resting my head on the chest of the person holding me. I was lifted up bride-style and carried somewhere, most likely my room, since I was set on a bed and covered in a blanket. The person left and I reached out for them./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""No," I croaked, "come back..." I heard somebody chuckle and I opened my eyes just enough to see Chase standing in the doorway before he climbed in under the covers with me. He wrapped his arms around me and I relaxed into him. "Thank you, Chase." I said and he nodded as I drifted off into sleep again./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Anything for you." He said and I smiled and buried my face into the crook of his neck./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I woke up again with Chase's face buried in my hair as my face was nuzzled in the crook of his neck. I sighed happily and Chase shifted a little bit./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""You awake?" he asked quietly and I nodded, "Yeah, but can we stay like this for a few more minutes? I like it. It's . . . nice." He nodded slightly and hugged me just a bit tighter. I smiled and placed a kiss on his neck. "Thank you for keeping me warm. And for yesterday." I said and he shrugged./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""It's no problem, really, it's not. I like spending time with you. I'm actually appreciated when I'm with you. And you'll only get a little teasing out of me. But other than that, I like spending time with you too."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I could tell he smiled by the way he said, "All right, let's go get breakfast," and picked me up bride-style and carried me out to the kitchen. I opened my eyes to see everybody watching us./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Morning," I yawned and Tasha smiled as Chase set me down./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Morning Dani, I see you slept well?" she said./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I nodded, "Yeah, Ch- er, my pillow was soft so I went out like a light." I yawned again and stretched, accidentally hitting Chase in the face and sending him backwards ten feet./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Oh my gosh, Chase I am so sorry. I guess I slept emtoo/em much." I said and helped him up as Tasha set out a plate of eggs for me./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Is regularly sleeping for you like what sleeping in our capsules is for us?" Bree asked and I nodded. "Yeah, if I get too much sleep, my bionics can get overcharged." I said and Adam exclaimed, "Cool!" I smiled at him./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""You should probably stay home from school today, so there aren't any accidents," Davenport said and I nodded./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Wait, you enrolled me in school?!" I asked excitedly and he nodded. I jumped up and down and hugged him./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Yay, I won't be the only girl going to school anymore!" Bree exclaimed and I hugged her as well./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Chase pretended to cough and I raised an eyebrow at him after pulling out of my hug with Bree./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Why are you coughing?" Adam asked loudly and Chase gave him a look that read 'why-do-you-think?'/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""I'm sick," Chase said./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Tasha was at his side immediately. "Aw, you poor baby." she put her hand to his forehead. "And you're burning up! What you need is some tea and some ibuprofen and definitely some rest. So no school for you either." She made him lie down on the couch, pushing Adam and Bree off./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Hey, no fair. If they get to stay home, so should we!" Bree exclaimed./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""They have valid reasons. You don't." Davenport said, crossing his arms./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Yeah, have fun at school," Leo said./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""You too, Leo. You don't have a valid reason either." Tasha said and I laughed./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Bye guys!" I exclaimed as they were pushed out the door. I sat at the counter and ate my eggs quickly before putting my dish in the sink and grabbing a piece of bacon for me and a piece for Chase. I handed him his piece as I sat down on the ground in front of him and we watched TV. "This show is really stupid. There's absolutely no point to it!" I said./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"He looked down at me, "All shows are like that."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Good point," I said and we went back to watching the show./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Dani, can you come sit up here with me?" he asked and I nodded./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Sure thing, sugar cube," I said and sat behind him, his head in my lap. I watched him sleep as I ran my hands through his hair. I kissed his forehead and then waved my hand over his body, making his headache that comes from being sick go away./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""How is he?" Tasha said, tiptoeing into the room./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""He's doing good, just sleeping right now. Yesterday must have worn him out." She nodded and placed a blanket on the table./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Incase either of you get cold," she said and I thanked her before she left. Just as she did, Chase started shaking and shivering. I laid the blanket on top of him but he didn't stop shaking./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Chase, Chase," I said, trying to get him to wake up./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"He sat up quickly, breathing heavily. I rubbed his back in circular motions, trying to get him to calm down. "Chase, you okay?" I asked and he shook his head. I kept rubbing his back until he relaxed a bit more. "Come on, I think you need a better place to sleep other than on the couch." He nodded and I grabbed the blanket, leading him to my room. "You can sleep in here if you'd like . . ." He nodded and climbed in, under the covers. I turned to go before he stopped me./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Wait, can you . . ."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Stay?" I finished for him and he nodded. "Yeah," I said and climbed into the bed with him, throwing the covers over both of us, and wrapping my arms around him, "I'd love to." He smiled as I kissed his cheek./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I coddled him for a little while, knowing he was feeling terrible. Especially with the symptoms he had. "How are you feeling, cupcake?" I asked him and he shivered./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Like I got hit by a bus. And then it backed up and hit me again," he said and I pouted./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Aww you poor thing. You know what, I'm going to make you some soup and we can stay in here and watch movies, how does that sound?" I asked, hopeful that he would say yes./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Perfect," he mumbled out, his nose all stuffy as he coughed again. I smiled weakly and got up and headed for the kitchen./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""How is he?" Davenport asked and I smiled./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""I think he's got the flu, but not to worry, he'll get better. Just some soup and maybe some sugar."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""What, a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down?" he mocked./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I nodded, completely serious, "Yes, actually," I walked back with a spoon, the medicine and the sugar jar./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Dani!" Davenport exclaimed and I stopped as he slid in front of me and turned around. "What is up with you?" he laughed, catching his breath. Wow, didn't know I walked that fast./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Nothing is 'up' with me. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, as it always has." He shook his head like I was crazy. "Shush, just go make Chase some Ramen Noodle soup and I'll be back in a minute," I said and Davenport rolled his eyes but went to go do it anyway./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I walked back into my room to see Chase shaking again. I quietly put the things in my hands down and knelt beside Chase, taking his hand in my own. "Chase, I need you to open your eyes for me. I need you to wake up. Please Chase, wake up," I whispered, tears threatening to spill over and he sat up very quickly and faced me. I sighed and blinked back the tears, not letting him notice./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I smiled at him and ran my fingers through his hair. He smiled weakly at me and I gave him a weak smile back. "Here, I brought you something," I said and picked up the medicine bottle and poured some on the spoon. He shook his head like he refused to drink it. "Please Chase, it'll make you feel better." I said and still he shook his head. "I'll give you a special treat if you just take the medicine..." I said and he raised his eyebrow at me. I nodded and he took the medicine. I smiled as he swallowed it with a bitter look on his face. I laughed./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Hey! It's not funny!" he croaked and I noticed how scratchy his voice was. "Here, take this," I said and handed him the medicine bottle which he put on the nightstand. I took a spoonful of sugar and yet again he looked at me with a raised eyebrow. I nodded and he took it, swallowing the sugar whole. "There, that should help with the taste. I'm just gonna go double check on your soup and be back with it in a minute."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"He nodded and laid back down as I went back to the kitchen and grabbed his soup with a package of crackers after putting in a little salt and pepper into the soup. I took it back to Chase who ate it happily and sat beside me as I turned on the movie 'Tangled'. Chase groaned and I laughed all the while resting my head on the backboard as he rested against me like I was his support beam./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"After the dispute was settled, there was a nerve-wracking call. Chase looked over to the computer and opened up a new mission file. "You guys go, I'll watch over the lab." I said and the three other bionic kids left immediately for Alaska./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I walked around the lab tapping on the desk and stuff, trying someway to stop the boredom. Somewhere between the time they left and the time they got back, someone knocked me out. Something cold and hard hit the back of my head and I passed out very quickly./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"When I woke up, I was against a wall, chains holding me back. I struggled and fought against the chains, trying to break free. After a few minutes, I gave up and sighed. The metal was made out of nickel, the one thing that makes me have an allergic reaction to it./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I sighed as my wrists and ankles started to get itchy and swell up a bit. I groaned in frustration and tried to speed myself out of the chains, but that didn't work either. Then I scanned the room for keys. I didn't find any./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Having fun sweetheart?" a voice asked and I frowned. "Who are you?! What do you want with me?!" I yelled and the person came out of the shadows. "Aww, c'mon Dani, you're taking all the fun out of this!" The person said and laughed underneath a mask. "Who are you?!" I yelled and the person took his mask off. "Your worst enemy."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I lifted my head to see a teenager around the age of 18 standing right in front of me./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Miss me?" he asked./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I tilted my head to the side in a questioning manner./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""If I missed you, wouldn't you think I would be happier to see you?" I asked in a 'duh' manner./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Alright, Dani. Enough with the games." he said and I rolled my eyes./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Just unlock me. I promise I won't run away." I said and he nodded, pulling the keys out of his pocket and unlocking me. I jumped into his arms as he wrapped me up in a hug./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"He laughed, "So you are happy to see me then."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I smiled into the crook of his neck, "I'm always happy to see you. I wish you hadn't locked me up first, but yes, I am very happy to see you." I cupped his face, "Still as handsome as ever," I said quietly and he genuinely smiled at me./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Well, you still are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen," he said and I giggled./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""You're such a dork," I muttered nuzzling my face into the crook of his neck, my legs wrapped around his abdomen as he held me up./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Yeah, well, I guess you rubbed off on me a little bit after all those years," he said and I smiled./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Yeah, yeah, I get it."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Suddenly, my back made slight impact with the brick wall behind me. "You know, I'm not sure if you've missed me, but I certainly have missed you," he said and I smiled./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Yeah, I've missed you too," I said sadly and looked him in the eyes. "I just wish we had more time right now. But Bree and Adam and Chase are going to come looking for me and I don't want you getting hurt."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"He smiled at me with sadness in his eyes, "Can we make the best of this moment then? Because as long as you're mine, I feel like I'm on top of the world."I nodded and leaned in, my lips brushing against his for a mere second before pulling away. "You little tease," he muttered and cupped my jaw, pushing his lips against my own./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I ran my hands through his hair and he deepened the kiss. I pulled away after another minute of kissing him and looked into his eyes. "My, my, my, look at that. Lukey Pookey has gotten good at kissing!" I teased him and he blushed./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Yeah, well, I knew I was going to see you soon enough," he mumbled and looked down at the ground./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I tilted his head up so he was looking at me. "No need to be ashamed, I like that you put effort into it. And besides, you're cute when you blush." He blushed again and I smiled, wrapping my arms around his neck and resting my head on his shoulder./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Dani, I love you," Luke told me and I looked up at him./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""I love you too, Lukey. But you know that this can't be a constant thing between us," I said as we were now sitting on the couch, me in his lap./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"He pushed off the couch and spun around, giving me an angry look. "Why not? We can make this work, just you and me, on our own, no distractions." He said./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I giggled, "Because Luke, we just can't. You know why and I know why, I don't want to explain it again. Luke, I love you, I really really do. I just- I can't take the chance on losing you."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""So I'm just a one-time fling, huh? I'm basically your rebound." I looked away from him. "Dani, I can't keep doing this. I can't keep getting my hopes up thinking that you may just one day run into my arms. It's either that we're together or we're not. Your choice." he said sternly and looked at me with his large, beautiful green eyes./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""I-I... I guess this is goodbye then," I said, standing up and he nodded, turning away from me. "Luke," I whispered and rubbed his arm. He looked away from me. I sighed and walked towards the door, about to take a step through when I rethought my decision. "You know what, no. I don't care what everybody will say. You're mine and I'm not letting you go." I said and walked back at a quick pace. I pushed my lips to his./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""You are never getting away from me ever again," he said and I smiled as he wrapped me up in his arms./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Dani, move out of the way." Chase said harshly from the doorway./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I spun around standing protectively in front of Luke. "Chase, you don't know what you're doing." I said as he came closer to us with a new device that Davenport must have built. "/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Yes, I do. It's called protecting you from impostors," he said and I gave him a confused look./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Impostor?" I muttered and looked behind me at Luke and saw his eye twitch. My eyes went wide as I jumped behind Chase who used the device in his hands to take down Impostor Luke. I knelt beside the slowly melting figure and saw the meal structure that replaced bones and the wires connecting to something else. Chase put a hand on my shoulder and I looked up at him. "I just hope the real Luke is all right," I said and he nodded./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""I'm sure he is, now c'mon, let's go home." he said and helped me up. I took Chase's hand and rested my head on his shoulder as we walked home./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Where were you guys, we were so worried!" Davenport said and I smiled sadly. "I was hanging out with an imposter who pretended to be my best friend. But Chase came in and saved the day," I said and stood on my tip-toes, kissing Chase's cheek. I let go of his hand and sat on the couch, grabbing a pillow and hugging it tightly, bringing my knees to my chest./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Hey, you ok?" Chase asked, sitting down next to me after everybody left the living room./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""The sad thing is that I emactually/em believed it was him, that he was emactually/em there in front of me, alive and healthy. That he really did care enough for me to come back." I said./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Chase gave me a confused look. "Is that what you were talking about, when you said why you couldn't stay with him?"/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I nodded, "You know, I would be really mad at you right now that you overheard the conversation if this were a normal situation. But it's not. So, thank you." I smiled at him. It was weak, but it was still a smile./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""It's no biggie. I'm just glad you're safe. So this Luke guy must be pretty special to you, huh?" he asked and I nodded. "He's my bestfriend in the world. The last time I saw him, he was visiting Douglas for something and told me not to wait for him and never came back. He just left like he had never been part of my life. I'm not even sure what he's doing now."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""You know, the saying goes, 'If you love something, set it free, if it comes back, It's meant to be.' Maybe he wasn't your meant-to-be. Maybe he was just a bump in the road." He said and took my hand./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Thanks Chase," I said and rested my head on his shoulder./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Don't thank me, love can blind even the smartest person in the world," he said and I smiled./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""That's your title, not mine. You can keep it." I said./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"He smiled, "We'll share it."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I nodded and moved closer to him. "I'm cold," I whispered and he wrapped his arms around me./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""That better?" he asked and I nodded. "Much."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I woke up shivering, and that's all I knew until a strong -and warm- pair of arms wrapped around me. I relaxed into them, my eyes still closed and turned in to the pair of arms, resting my head on the chest of the person holding me. I was lifted up bride-style and carried somewhere, most likely my room, since I was set on a bed and covered in a blanket. The person left and I reached out for them./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""No," I croaked, "come back..." I heard somebody chuckle and I opened my eyes just enough to see Chase standing in the doorway before he climbed in under the covers with me. He wrapped his arms around me and I relaxed into him. "Thank you, Chase." I said and he nodded as I drifted off into sleep again./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Anything for you." He said and I smiled and buried my face into the crook of his neck./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I woke up again with Chase's face buried in my hair as my face was nuzzled in the crook of his neck. I sighed happily and Chase shifted a little bit./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""You awake?" he asked quietly and I nodded, "Yeah, but can we stay like this for a few more minutes? I like it. It's . . . nice." He nodded slightly and hugged me just a bit tighter. I smiled and placed a kiss on his neck. "Thank you for keeping me warm. And for yesterday." I said and he shrugged./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""It's no problem, really, it's not. I like spending time with you. I'm actually appreciated when I'm with you. And you'll only get a little teasing out of me. But other than that, I like spending time with you too."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I could tell he smiled by the way he said, "All right, let's go get breakfast," and picked me up bride-style and carried me out to the kitchen. I opened my eyes to see everybody watching us./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Morning," I yawned and Tasha smiled as Chase set me down./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Morning Dani, I see you slept well?" she said./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I nodded, "Yeah, Ch- er, my pillow was soft so I went out like a light." I yawned again and stretched, accidentally hitting Chase in the face and sending him backwards ten feet./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Oh my gosh, Chase I am so sorry. I guess I slept emtoo/em much." I said and helped him up as Tasha set out a plate of eggs for me./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Is regularly sleeping for you like what sleeping in our capsules is for us?" Bree asked and I nodded. "Yeah, if I get too much sleep, my bionics can get overcharged." I said and Adam exclaimed, "Cool!" I smiled at him./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""You should probably stay home from school today, so there aren't any accidents," Davenport said and I nodded./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Wait, you enrolled me in school?!" I asked excitedly and he nodded. I jumped up and down and hugged him./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Yay, I won't be the only girl going to school anymore!" Bree exclaimed and I hugged her as well./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Chase pretended to cough and I raised an eyebrow at him after pulling out of my hug with Bree./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Why are you coughing?" Adam asked loudly and Chase gave him a look that read 'why-do-you-think?'/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""I'm sick," Chase said./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Tasha was at his side immediately. "Aw, you poor baby." she put her hand to his forehead. "And you're burning up! What you need is some tea and some ibuprofen and definitely some rest. So no school for you either." She made him lie down on the couch, pushing Adam and Bree off./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Hey, no fair. If they get to stay home, so should we!" Bree exclaimed./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""They have valid reasons. You don't." Davenport said, crossing his arms./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Yeah, have fun at school," Leo said./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""You too, Leo. You don't have a valid reason either." Tasha said and I laughed./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Bye guys!" I exclaimed as they were pushed out the door. I sat at the counter and ate my eggs quickly before putting my dish in the sink and grabbing a piece of bacon for me and a piece for Chase. I handed him his piece as I sat down on the ground in front of him and we watched TV. "This show is really stupid. There's absolutely no point to it!" I said./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"He looked down at me, "All shows are like that."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Good point," I said and we went back to watching the show./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Dani, can you come sit up here with me?" he asked and I nodded./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Sure thing, sugar cube," I said and sat behind him, his head in my lap. I watched him sleep as I ran my hands through his hair. I kissed his forehead and then waved my hand over his body, making his headache that comes from being sick go away./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""How is he?" Tasha said, tiptoeing into the room./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""He's doing good, just sleeping right now. Yesterday must have worn him out." She nodded and placed a blanket on the table./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Incase either of you get cold," she said and I thanked her before she left. Just as she did, Chase started shaking and shivering. I laid the blanket on top of him but he didn't stop shaking./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Chase, Chase," I said, trying to get him to wake up./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"He sat up quickly, breathing heavily. I rubbed his back in circular motions, trying to get him to calm down. "Chase, you okay?" I asked and he shook his head. I kept rubbing his back until he relaxed a bit more. "Come on, I think you need a better place to sleep other than on the couch." He nodded and I grabbed the blanket, leading him to my room. "You can sleep in here if you'd like . . ." He nodded and climbed in, under the covers. I turned to go before he stopped me./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Wait, can you . . ."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Stay?" I finished for him and he nodded. "Yeah," I said and climbed into the bed with him, throwing the covers over both of us, and wrapping my arms around him, "I'd love to." He smiled as I kissed his cheek./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I coddled him for a little while, knowing he was feeling terrible. Especially with the symptoms he had. "How are you feeling, cupcake?" I asked him and he shivered./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Like I got hit by a bus. And then it backed up and hit me again," he said and I pouted./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Aww you poor thing. You know what, I'm going to make you some soup and we can stay in here and watch movies, how does that sound?" I asked, hopeful that he would say yes./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Perfect," he mumbled out, his nose all stuffy as he coughed again. I smiled weakly and got up and headed for the kitchen./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""How is he?" Davenport asked and I smiled./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""I think he's got the flu, but not to worry, he'll get better. Just some soup and maybe some sugar."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""What, a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down?" he mocked./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I nodded, completely serious, "Yes, actually," I walked back with a spoon, the medicine and the sugar jar./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Dani!" Davenport exclaimed and I stopped as he slid in front of me and turned around. "What is up with you?" he laughed, catching his breath. Wow, didn't know I walked that fast./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Nothing is 'up' with me. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, as it always has." He shook his head like I was crazy. "Shush, just go make Chase some Ramen Noodle soup and I'll be back in a minute," I said and Davenport rolled his eyes but went to go do it anyway./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I walked back into my room to see Chase shaking again. I quietly put the things in my hands down and knelt beside Chase, taking his hand in my own. "Chase, I need you to open your eyes for me. I need you to wake up. Please Chase, wake up," I whispered, tears threatening to spill over and he sat up very quickly and faced me. I sighed and blinked back the tears, not letting him notice./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I smiled at him and ran my fingers through his hair. He smiled weakly at me and I gave him a weak smile back. "Here, I brought you something," I said and picked up the medicine bottle and poured some on the spoon. He shook his head like he refused to drink it. "Please Chase, it'll make you feel better." I said and still he shook his head. "I'll give you a special treat if you just take the medicine..." I said and he raised his eyebrow at me. I nodded and he took the medicine. I smiled as he swallowed it with a bitter look on his face. I laughed./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;""Hey! It's not funny!" he croaked and I noticed how scratchy his voice was. "Here, take this," I said and handed him the medicine bottle which he put on the nightstand. I took a spoonful of sugar and yet again he looked at me with a raised eyebrow. I nodded and he took it, swallowing the sugar whole. "There, that should help with the taste. I'm just gonna go double check on your soup and be back with it in a minute."/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"He nodded and laid back down as I went back to the kitchen and grabbed his soup with a package of crackers after putting in a little salt and pepper into the soup. I took it back to Chase who ate it happily and sat beside me as I turned on the movie 'Tangled'. Chase groaned and I laughed all the while resting my head on the backboard as he rested against me like I was his support beam./p