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Chapter Two
Tucker:
Part One
Closer to where I started…chasing after you
I led Valerie into the cafeteria where I'd told Danny and Sam I'd meet them anyway. Every thought in my head was currently dazed and confused…but what else was new?
So Valerie wanted me to help her get Sam and Danny hooked. My plan all along had honestly been wait until they just snap out of it, but now, I was actually starting to believe that this thing could actually work. Sure, I knew that deep down inside Danny and Sam liked each other. Heck, it was kind of obvious to everyone else but them.
I spotted Danny and Sam sitting at our usual table, alone and nudged Valerie, who was standing next to me as we drew closer.
"Welcome to the second part of the Danny/Sam show," I said, enjoying her facial expression. "Look over there and tell me what you see."
Of course, she saw exactly what I saw, and heard all of what I heard.
"Where did you get that?"
"I stole it this morning from the fridge," I heard Sam reply. "My parents don't want any more sugar in the house, so I grabbed this before they had the chance to throw it away."
"So you're going to eat a whole can of whipped cream by yourself," Danny asked.
She gave him a look and then turned the can of whipped cream upside down and poured a large amount on her spoon, eating it immediately.
Danny held out his spoon hopefully. She raised an eyebrow and he stuck out his lip like a puppy dog did when it pouted….the same face I knew Sam couldn't resist.
She giggled and shook the can again, pressing the odd shaped nozzle. However, she must have shaken it a little too hard because it splattered outwards, spraying all over Danny, putting little dots of white cream on his face.
Sam burst into laughter. Danny sat there a moment, blinking, but then turned to her very slowly. "You did that on purpose." She was laughing so hard that she couldn't reply. So he leaned over and stole the bottle away from her.
"Hey!" she protested, reaching for it. She stood up and stood over him, but he put his hands behind his back to make it unreachable.
"Oh, what are you going to do now?" he asked.
In reply, she sat on top of him and reached for it still. He raised it up and pressed the nozzle, spraying them both at the same time. Sam shrieked, blocking her face with her hands.
He stopped (and by this time they were covered in it) and licked his fingers off. She seized the chance to steal the can back and poured a little on her finger.
But instead of licking it off, she put her finger to Danny's nose, smudging it onto his skin. They both stared at each other for the longest time. I cleared my throat, finally sitting down, to announce my arrival, even though I'd been there for a while.
Sam jumped, sliding back into her chair automatically. She hurriedly began to wipe whipped cream off of her, just as Danny did the same.
"Did you already eat lunch?" I asked him. Valerie was sitting beside me.
"Yeah," he replied. "I was starving."
Sam began picking through her salad, poking her fork extra hard into the lettuce like she always did for some odd reason.
"Hey Val," Danny greeted, finally turning to her.
"You just now noticed me? I've been here for about ten minutes now," she said. I resisted the urge to laugh.
"Oh," he said. "Well, hi."
"Get distracted did we?" Valerie asked, looking at Sam.
"With what?" Sam asked, dropping a tomato into her mouth.
"Whipped cream," I said, grinning. And just like I knew they would, both of my best friends automatically turned bright red. This time I actually did laugh.
"What?" they both asked, both of them glaring at me.
"Nothing," I replied. I turned to Danny and tapped my nose. "You missed a spot." He hastily rubbed more whipped cream off of him.
"Hey, I was kind of wondering something," Valerie said suddenly. I looked at her, wondering what the heck she plotted and what crazy thing I'd most likely end up doing. "Maybe we could go on a double date sometime this week." Okay, that's not half as bad as I had imagined.
"A double date? With who?" Danny asked.
"Well, me and Tucker and you two," she said.
I watched Danny and Sam exchange glances and then start laughing hysterically. I rolled my eyes, wondering why they were so weird sometimes.
"What?" Sam asked, taking a breath.
"Or I guess I could invite Paulina," Valerie said. I stared at her, wondering if she knew what she was getting into. "If you don't want to go Sam."
"No," Sam snapped, her eyes flashing.
"Or Kwan could go with Sam, if Danny doesn't want to go," she added.
This was the next thing that surprised me, and didn't all at the same time. Danny's facial expression then changed as well.
"No," he said.
They both looked at each other and shrugged. Sam spoke then. "We'll go…"
"But not as…a date," Danny added.
I shook my head, staring at Valerie incredulously. I hoped she knew how incredibly insane she was. "What about a movie?" I asked.
"Sure," Danny and Sam replied. I loved it when they did that. Because then, they would look at each other and then look away again, which was exactly what they did.
The bell rang and I blinked in surprise. As much as I loved to eat, I hadn't even thought about it. Not that the cooks' would serve things worth a nice little feast, but still, I was a hungry man. I decided to ignore this.
"Val, can I talk to you a minute?" I asked, seizing her arm. I waved to my best friends and headed with her towards the exit. "Have you lost your friggen mind?"
"What?"
"I swear you are homicidal. You know, I did warn you about saying the name 'Paulina' in front of Sam, right? I swear I did."
"She did get a little angry, didn't she?" she said, throwing me off by looking excited. She really was insane. "And so did Danny. They both got jealous."
"No, Sam is jealous, Danny is overprotective," I said, remembering the last time someone Danny cared for had tried dating.
"Yeah, but has he ever done that before…for Sam?" she asked.
"No…" I replied. "Look, if we're going to do this, you can't jump right in. Sam's smart enough to figure that one out, and Danny's not so short sighted anymore either."
"Anymore?" she asked, giggling.
"That's not what I meant," I told her.
"Come on Tucker. We can do this," she said. "If we're careful enough, they won't even know what hit them."
Frankly, I was more worried about what would hit me when they did find out. "Just…be careful," I said. "Move in slowly."
"Got it. What are they doing after school?"
"We usually walk home," I said, thinking of our daily routine where we would walk to our houses, playing truth or dare or another stupid game we always played.
"Can I come with? Just for one more test?" she asked.
I sighed. "Okay, but like I said, be careful."
"Be careful with what?"
We turned (after jumping about a freaking foot) to see both Danny and Sam behind us, odd looks on their faces. Once again, after saying something in unison equals awkward moment where they glance at each other and then look away again.
"Walking home," Valerie said quickly. "I kind of don't live in a very safe neighborhood anymore."
"Oh," Sam said, clearly believing her.
"Listen, can I come over to your house tonight?" Valerie asked. It took me a minute to figure out that she was talking to me.
"Sure…" I said, kind of weirded out.
She gave me a look and I knew that she wasn't really coming over to my house, she was just trying to walk home with us.
"But I'm walking home," I said, only adding to the plot. I pointed to the three of us. "We're kind of walking home. We usually do every night."
"Is it alright if I come with?"
"Sure," Danny and I said together. Sam shrugged in reply.
I realized that if I didn't hurry, I'd be late for class. (What a big deal and all.) "So…then, I'll see you after school?"
"See ya," she said.
"Ow! Danny, that was my foot!" Sam said suddenly as Danny tried to turn to walk to his class and rammed into her instead.
"Sorry," he said quickly.
She stood on his in return and they gave each other looks, but then laughed. "I'll see you later," he said to Sam and I.
"Lata," I called. Sam stayed where she was and turned to me.
"What?" she asked.
"Nothing," I said, smiling just to confuse her. I began to hurry to my locker. Maybe this wouldn't be as hard as it looked….
Ooh….I'm thinking these chapters won't be so long since there's so many of them. Three pages each it seems. So…how did I do on channeling Tucker?
Now, once again, I have to warn you. For those of you who have read Freeze Out, at the beginning of a specific character's chapter, I gave you a slight warning. I'll give it again now. For some odd reason, I feel very very weird when I'm doing Danny's point of view in first person. If by any means, you find him out of character, please inform me. Like I said, I don't know why, but I have never felt completely comfortable doing his part. But he's the next chapter. So, please R&R!
Here's your sneak peek!
Chapter Three: Danny: Part One
"Tucker's acting weird," she said.
"Weirder than normal?" I joked. She smiled at me, laughing shortly.
"It's just kind of odd. He seems nervous all of sudden," she said. She shrugged. "It just seems odd….I don't know, maybe I'm crazy."
"We're all a little crazy," I stated.
"Some of us more than others," she said, nudging me with her elbow.
"Hey!" I said. We stopped in front of her house.
"So, I'll call you tonight okay? I want to see that new movie…Serenity…that new one with Joss Whedon," she asked.
"Yeah, that would be great," I agreed. I liked the fact that we liked the same type of movies. It made decisions so much easier.
"What do you think about this whole date thing?" she asked, rolling her eyes. She unlocked the door to her house, still staring at me.
"I don't know," I admitted. "Kind of weird I suppose."
"Do you ever have a straight answer Danny?" she asked, laughing.
"I don't know," I teased. She laughed again. If it was one thing I enjoyed doing, it was making Sam laugh. And most of the time, I did it without even meaning to.
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