The gang discuss valentine's day memories!

Chapter 6: Valetine's Day Memories

February 13th-a day before Valentine's day and the gang were in the lunchroom, just discussing about the Valentine's day dance and their memories of Valentine's day. Caitlyn looks at Jojo and asked, "So, have you ever had a valentine before?"

"Not sure. The last time I had a valentine was in kindergaten and in third grade, but I never really got into it too much, because I don't know what the big deal is." Jojo answered.

"Have you ever sent any valentine's day cards to anyone?"

"No. Lost interest when I got older."

"Why so?" asked Misty.

"Not attractive."

"Oh, I see."

"What about you, Caitlyn?"

Caitlyn giggled softly and answered, "Well, I had several valentine's and I sent valentine's day cards to anyone, including teachers."

"Teachers?" asked Mike.

"Well, who I consider like the ones who love to help me out and is like a second parent to me."

"Oh, okay. I was thinking you had a crush on one."

Misty comes in and flicks Mike's forehead, which made him exclaim in small pain and then asked, "What was that for?"

"Asking a stupid question."

"Sor-ry."

"Whatever. For my first valentine's, I had a daddy-daughter day and we were dancing around the living room and I played a princess and he was my prince. Best daddy-daughter valentine's day."

"How old were you?" asked Misty.

"6. My dad still thinks of me as his little princess."

"I'd rather barf on the princess." Mike said, rolling his eyes.

"Hey, just because I was like a little princess, don't think I'm spoiled, okay?"

"Why? You'll banish me from your kingdom?"

Misty laughs sarcastically and asked, "Do you have any valentine's day memories?"

"Well, there was one time in first grade where I gave five people valentine's day cards and most of them are girls and I kissed one-in the cheek, of course."

"You kissed 10 girls in class, five of those 10 didn't have any valentine's day cards yet and you even kissed the teacher." Cody said.

"Did you really?" asked Max.

"Yeah, he did."

"I was being polite."

"Sure you were. For my valentine's day, it was in second grade and we had this small valentine's day dance and I'll never forget dancing with this one girl-Ramona Starkovsky. She was so pretty."

"Dressy Ramona?"

"Don't tell me you still remember that nickname."

"Oh, I did. She dresses weird."

"And I even traded half of my cookies with her cookies and dipped it with lemonade."

"Okay, how do you dip cookies in lemondade?" asked Marcus.

"We were just kids. We pretended like it was milk, only much sweeter and flavorful."

"Well, at least yours turned out good. For mine, not so much. It all happened in fourth grade and not one single person gave me a valentine's day card and I gave them several of them, but they sent them back to me."

"Sounds like someone's an anti-valentine's day." Jonah said.

"Somewhat."

"Well, me and my brothers never had a valentine's day before. The only valentine's day gift we ever gotten were being mauled in the face with a tree and being handcuffed through the side of a staircase and being punched in the face and thrown off the ground and fell down on the stairwell."

All of them gasped in horror and Misty asked, "What kind of idiot gave you that gift?"

"Paul."

All of them groaned in disgust after that response and Misty then said, "If he was still here today, I would give him a taste of his own medicine."

"I don't think that's a good idea." Travis said.

"And why not?"

"Because he hits girls too and he's got some sort of mental problems."

"I dare him to punch me out."

"Too bad, though because he's sentenced to death by lethal injection for abusing us."

"Good thing."

Zeke said, "I don't celebrate valentine's day."

"You don't?" asked Jojo.

"Not that I don't want to, but my dad told me that romance is for sissies who got nothing better to do that just waste their lives with a girl that is not that pretty."

"Do you ever rebel against anything your dad says?" asked Misty.

"Yep. But then, I would get beaten or punched in the face by it."

"That's brutal."

"Anything I do, it's not good enough for my dad."

"I feel the same way. I don't really celebrate valentine's day that much. My dad forbids me to do anything that involves valentine's day, sweetheart's day or anything like that. He wants me to do something else rather than just make valentine's day cards, because it make me feel like I'm a sissy. Just because I can go to a place where it's a valnetine dance doesn't make me a sissy." Dustin said.

"Okay, you need a new dad." Cyrus said.

"I do, but sadly, I'm stuck with him."

"What about Seth and Austin?"

"Me and Austin used to give valentine's day cards and candy to everyone in our school back in WhatCity and attend valentine's day dances and always have fun." Seth said.

"You must be lucky." Hawk said.

"We are. Our dad always has a thing for valentine's day and he makes the best valentine's day pizza/cake with frosting." Austin said.

"He does that? I wish I could taste that instead of what kinds of pizza my dad makes." Marcus said.

"What does he make?" asked Travis.

"Valentine's day ice cream/pizza surprise. It's mixed with candy, chocolate frosting, salsa, fudge and whonut butter."

"Sounds disgusting." Manny said.

"It is."

"I wouldn't eat that." Seth said.

"Me neither." Austin said.

"So, what about you guys? Have you had any valentine's day moments back at the group home?" asked Dustin.

"Honestly, we have somewhat of a valentine's day thing. Ryan and Jared always makes the coolest cupcakes of valentine's day, Josh and Hoagie likes to send out valentine's day cards and I'm more of a candy giver guy. Max, Diego and Stephen on the other hand-they don't celebrate it." Frankie said.

"Why not?" asked Caitlyn.

"Too depressed." Diego answered.

"Too guilty." Stephen said.

"Some girls can't accept me for me." Max said.

"Maybe you can give it a chance."

"I've never celebrated it before and I'm not sure who should I think is my valentine's."

"How's this-go to the valentine's day dance with us tomorrow and I'm sure by then you'll see that all we can do is have a good time."

"I do want to have fun."

"Take a chance. You got nothing to lose."

Diego looks at Max and said, "Just go for it."

Max sighed heavily and proceeds to take that leap of faith to go on his first valentine's day dance and said, "Okay, I'll do it."

"Great. You'll have a lot of fun, I promise."

"Okay."

Think it'll be an awesome night? One way to find out is to stay tuned for more!