A/N: Sorry 'bout the wait. Congratulations to bookowl17 for answering chapter 4's bonus question and to Demi909Lovato and Mikey337 for answering chapter 5's bonus question. Caroline Sunshine joins the main cast in Season 2 of Shake It Up! About time:)...Read on
Chapter 6
Cece stood up as she saw Rocky appear at the window.
"Hey hey hey," Her friend said somewhat awkwardly as she entered her apartment.
"Hi Rocky, could you sleep over tonight?" Cece asked hopefully.
"On a school night," Rocky, being of course, Rocky, said hesitantly.
"I'll set an alarm in the morning and you won't be late because you'll already be here!" Cece exclaimed in a sing song type of voice, a smile plastered on her face and eyes shining with mischief.
"I'll ask my mum," Rocky said and Cece pumped her fist in the air "Hey mum, could I sleep over at Cece's tonight?" Cece only heard half of the conversation, but it sounded promising.
"And…" She said.
"It's a yes," Rocky replied and they both high fived.
At around ten thirty pm, Cece asked her friend a question.
"Hey, Rocky?" She began.
"Yeah," Rocky replied looking down at her watch, even though Rocky Blue would never be late she still had to check her watch-just in case.
"What do you think of Gunter?" Cece asked looking at her feet, avoiding eye contact at all costs.
"Gunter? Well he's a wakadoo who dresses weird and talks about herding goats all day-pretty much sums him up," Rocky answered laughing. Cece didn't laugh and decided that now was not the best time after all, seen as Rocky was laughing now, she couldn't imagine how she would react to her dating Gunter.
"Why?" Rocky asked suddenly.
"No reason…" She lied.
The next day at school, Dina saw Deuce and called to him. He seemed distracted, nervous even.
"Deuce, what's the matter?" She asked half joking, he didn't reply in fear he would say the wrong thing, Dina sensed this and narrowed her eyes at him.
What could be so bad he couldn't tell his own girlfriend? Jumping to conclusions she said "You're breaking up with me? I understand-" Dina was cut off as Deuce decided to answer her question, not wanting to keep secrets from her any longer.
"Rocky and Frankie were on a date last night okay," He squeaked "But don't tell Rocky I told you,"
Dina thought for a moment trying to remember who Frankie was, no one came to mind.
"Who's Frankie?" It was really bothering her now, she knew the name but not who it belonged to.
"The Complication," Deuce reminded her. She nodded, of course! Frankie was 'The Complication', the boy who was always in detention and ditching class, the schools so called 'bad boy'. What would he be doing dating a goody-two-shoes like Rocky?
"Don't mention anything to Cece either," Deuce said just as Cece walked past.
"About what?" She asked.
"Uh, nothing!" Dina exclaimed and hurried off, Deuce smiling awkwardly before following her.
"Boy that was close," She breathed.
Frankie was on the lookout for Rocky, but instead he ran into Cece.
"Hey Frankie," She greeted him casually.
"Hey Cece," He replied. Frankie saw the suspicious look in Cece's eyes, had she found out?
"How come you weren't in detention yesterday?" She asked. Frankie was thrown off-guard by this unexpected question. He thought for a while, trying to come up with an excuse. There was along pause before he said "You only get detention if you get caught,"
"What did you do?" Cece questioned curiously and so far unconvinced.
He opened his mouth to reply when the bell rang.
"You going to class?" Cece looked at him.
"No, I'm The Complication," Frankie claimed leaning confidently against a locker. She glared at him and he wondered briefly if she had seen straight through him, but the little red-head just narrowed her eyes before heading to class. Frankie breathed a sigh of relief and ended up in detention that afternoon, but at least Cece was less suspicious.
On her way to her apartment, Tinka ran into Ty, he was dancing on the steps. She watched him as he scrambled down to meet her, an unpreventable smile on his face.
"So? Do I get a second date?" He asked hopefully.
Tinka laughed "Yes Ty, ve vill have many dates,"
She saw Gunter coming over to her and threw a questioning glance at Ty. Her brother didn't know about this, about them, and it was clear by Ty's reaction that he wouldn't know today. But she may have underestimated how well her Gunter knew her.
"Hello Ty, vat is up?" He asked.
"Nothing," He replied looking at Tinka, she nodded to signal that she understood he wanted their relationship to remain secret.
"Gunter, we must be going, our cat is having kittens again," She said in an excited tone, it was a lie but for some reason Gunter agreed with her and followed her upstairs.
She cast a backward glance at Ty and he smiled a smile that warmed her heart.
Gunter caught this smile and thought hard. He had seen someone on the fire escape last night talking to Tinka, who had looked remarkably like Ty. From what he had just heard from their conversation, he couldn't help over hearing them, he had a good guess at why he might've been there.
"Are you dating Ty?" He asked.
He saw Tinka's eyes widen, she seemed panicked.
"No, vhy would you think that?" She replied. Gunter knew she was lying to him, he just didn't know why. If she wanted to date Ty, why should he care?
"Tinka, do not lie to me, you can go out with Ty if this is what you are wanting to, this is none of my concern," Gunter said smiling, although he was finding it hard to accept seen as he had had to pay Ty to go out with her in the first place. Money well spent, he said to himself grinning.
"I am dating Ty, he does not want anyone to know, he thinks they would…freak out," His sister told him.
"Who is 'they'?" Gunter asked narrowing his eyes at her.
"You, Rocky, Cece and the rest of the school," Tinka replied.
"Do not worry sister twin, I will not tell anyone, but they will find out," He warned her as they entered their apartment. Gunter waited for her reply at the door. She saw him standing in the doorway, obviously not going to let her pass without an answer so she said "I know," before going to her room, leaving her brother to take in her and Ty's relationship.
Cece had heard enough, she went up to Gunter who was standing in the doorway.
"Find out what?" Turned out she had only heard the last part of the conversation, which was good in a way, she would definitely have freaked out if she knew the truth.
"Find out that our cat is having kittens again," He lied, she could tell.
"You're a really bad liar," Cece said "Worse than Rocky and trust me, that's saying something," She laughed recalling Rocky's many failed attempts at lying.
"I have promised I would not tell," Gunter replied crossing his arms and looking at the ceiling, Cece knew he was avoiding her eyes so she placed two hands on his face and forced him to face her.
"It is not going to work Cece," He sighed trying to remain strong.
"Please Gunter, come on please tell me," She begged.
"No," He said, glaring at the little red-head, hoping she would not persist, but Cece Jones would never give up.
"So you'll tell me?" Cece replied confusing Gunter.
"Cece-" He was quickly cut off as Cece began to cry, fake tears but hopefully convincing. He finally cracked "Okay, okay! Tinka and Ty are dating,"
P.O.O., never let me down, she laughed to herself before she realised just what Gunter had told her.
"What?" Cece exclaimed in amazement and shock. Ty had gone on a date with Tinka before, but she was pretty sure it was either a joke or for money. He wasn't playing a joke on her again was he? Cece wasn't the best of friends with Tinka, at best they were frenimies, but she still didn't want her to get hurt.
"You can not tell anyone," Gunter reminded her.
A/N: I'm bored so it's about time for a BONUS QUESTION: What does P.O.O. stand for (according to Cece)?
I'll try to update sooner next time :) Until then here's a SMALL preview for Chapter 7...
"Deuce!" Rocky hissed. (What did he do? tune in next time!)
