A/N: Hi! Sorry for the long hiatus! I promise to try to have faster updates from here on out. Here's the next chapter, it's a little longer, hopefully you like it.

"Alright ladies. Hit the showers." John signed.

The team rushed to the locker room after a very long and tiring practice. However, John couldn't help notice something wrong with Daphne- practice went well, but he couldn't help notice that her head wasn't fully in the game.

"Alright. What's wrong kiddo?" John spoke, while attempting to sign.

"Nothing." Daphne swiftly signed.

"Sweetheart, I think I know you well enough to know when something is wrong."

Daphne sighed, and smiled at John's attentiveness.

"Come on let's have a seat, and talk about this- well sign about it…I'll try and catch up" He babbled.

Daphne smiled at his attempt to sign, and gave in to his inquiries, " Okay, so…" Daphne sighed and tried tried to explain the Simone ordeal and how offput she was by it.

After listening to Daphne vent, John too had many questions.

"Wait…I thought Simone was Toby's girlfriend"

" Yeah, well emphasis on the was…Apparently Toby had broken it off with her, and instead of trying to make things better with Toby that day she made things worse with me…and I don't know this thing with Wilke is kind of new, and he was Simone's ex-boyfriend years ago…and I kind of feel ugh…I don't know! Should I tell Toby about this? Or-"

"Sweetie, Woah, breath." John interrupted, releasing a long breath, " That's a lot to handle. Here's what I think you should do. You know how sometimes during a game-things just don't go our way? Well what do we do, we keep moving forward, pushing on…and that's exactly what you need to do. Ignore Simone, and remember that Wilke- I can't believe I'm saying this, but he's an OK guy."

Daphne smiled at her father tenderly, "Thanks dad."

John smiled at the word, and kissed his daughter's forehead, and pulled her into a warm embraced, and pulled back, facing her, "Now go on in there, and hit the showers, you kind of need one" he said teasingly.

Daphne laughed and promptly left the gym, feeling completely better than this morning.

"Wilke?, What are you doing here!" Daphne exclaimed as she found him leaning against her car.

"I'm here, to take you out for some Ice Cream, " He said, attempting to sign 'ice cream' and leaned in to kiss her, "Now I won't take no for an answer…so let's get moving"

Daphne chuckled at the sight, and nodded in agreement, "So how'd you get here? I don't see your car"

"Bus."

Daphne raised one eyebrow, and shook her head in disbelief.

"What? Can't a man use public transportation once in a while?"

Daphne burst into laughter and stated, " A man can…but you are a whole different story. Really Wilke? Did you lose a bet or something?"

"Can't get anything past you huh?"

Daphne chuckled, "Nope. Now spill."

He shook his head and chuckled, "Later. Ice Cream awaits, ahem." He stated, with his hands out motioning for the keys.

Daphne raised an eyebrow, and gave in, handing him the keys. After all he was buying.

"You sure are enjoying that Ice Cream Daph" Wilke said teasingly, as he watched her enjoy her strawberry cone.

Daphne simply stuck her tongue out, and enjoyed the comfortable silence- no pun intented- between the two.

Daphne and Wilke spent the next hour enjoying each other's companies, and had almost forgotten the whole Simone, well that was until now.

Daphne was mid-sentence, laughing about Wilke's over dramatic experience with public transportation, when her laughter subsided and attention was focused on a different sight.

There was Simone, and Toby approaching Topsy's Popcorn and Ice Cream, directly their way.