Disclaimer: I unfortunately do not own Ghost Whisperer or any of the characters

Thanks to the people who read my previous chapter, hope you'll like the new one just as much.

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Ned and Cassie were sitting outside Village Java quietly drinking a coffee while Alice was eating an ice cream and colouring in a small book.

"You're a great friend Ned. You do know that don't you?" asked Cassie breaking the silence.

"I do now," Ned replied. He laughed a little which broke the tension more.

"Thanks for doing this, you didn't have to."

"Cass, it's no problem. Really."

The top of Alice's ice cream fell off and dripped onto her top which caused her to begin crying.

"Cass... I've got... I've got ice cream down my top," Alice sobbed.

"Ally!" said Cassie, her voice rose slightly, "It's alright well just change it before he sees."

"Who see's," Ned asked curiously.

Before Cassie could answer her phone began to ring. She looked at the ID and quickly answered it.

"Hello... Hi dad...sorry..." Inaudible shouting could be heard from down the phone. "Sorry dad... yeah... sorry... we'll be right back."

Cassie put the phone down, her face turning slightly red. She turned towards Ned before standing up.

"Sorry we've got to go." She takes Ally's hand and they started to walk down the street.

"Well that was weird" Ned thought to himself.

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Ned was walking down the street towards the shop but he decided not to. He didn't want to go back too early only to be mocked about why he was back so early. Instead he turned around and started walking over to the park. As he was walking down the street he noticed Cassie and Ally with an older looking man, probably their father. He could hear them shouting at each other so he decided to get a little bit closed but not too close that they could see him.

"What did you think you were doing?" screamed the man.

"I'm sorry dad, we just went to get a drink," whispered Cassie, not wanting to make her dad mad. Their dad turned to look at Ally.

"And what have you got all down your t-shirt?" The little girl started to cry as she grabbed onto Cassie's leg not wanting to let go. Their dad noticed that people were starting to stair so he opened the car door.

"Hurry up and get in the car." The two girls started to climb in but they weren't fast enough for him so he pushed them from behind. He then walked round to the driver's side, got in and sped off down the street.

"Nice dad," Ned thought to himself.

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Mel and Delia were looking through paper work while Jim packed some antiques into a box when Ned walked through the door.

"Hey," he said casually hoping that no one would see that he was nervous about something.

"How did your date go?"asked Jim with a smile on his face. Ned glared at him then went over to sit on one of the chairs that were up for sale. He pulled out his phone and text Cassie to make sure that everything was okay.

Hi. Jst makin sure ur fine, u left kinda suddenly!

Im always ea 4 u 2 tlk. Ned x

"What's up?" asked Delia curiously. Ned looked up from his phone realising that everyone was looking at him.

"Nothing, why?"

"No reason." Everyone was quiet for a couple of seconds before Melinda broke the silence.

"So we could go back to mine and order in Pizza or something?"

Everyone agreed so they all walked out the door and into various cars. As they were walking out Ned looked at his phone to see that there was a message.

Hi. Yh soz bout tht. 4got 2 help dad wi

Shoppin 2day :( thnx neway. Cass x

Ned smiled and continued walking over to the car. But he was not entirely sure that Cassie was telling the truth.

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Thanks for reading this chap. Please R&R.

Little Miss x