"You can come over to the passenger seat" Lacey tells Danny friendly.
"No, I'm good, take me home" – Danny says in a demanding tone.
"Excu-" Lacey starts. Danny giggles, "I'm just kidding", Danny gets off the backseat and gets in the front passenger seat. Lacey takes a deep breath.
They were still parked outside of Phoebe's house until they hear beeping from another car behind them.
"Oh!" Lacey gets startled and gets ready to reverse from the paring place.
"I thought Phoebe's parents were home already" Danny asks questioningly.
"Yep" Lacey answers quickly as she starts backing away. "Then who …?" Danny looks inside the black car, he sees two familiar faces.
"Stop the car" Danny tells Lacey.
"What?" Lacey asks. "Just stop the car for a minute" Danny says as he starts getting out of the car.
"What! Oh god." Lacey panics inside the car, as if she knows what's happening.
The black car parks, two people get out.
"Well, not the person I would be expecting to find at the front of my house … oh wait it's not just one, it's two!" Tyler says mockingly looking at Lacey inside the car.
Lacey looks at Tyler then looks away. Danny just stands there as he sees his best friend getting close to where him and Tyler were standing. She had her hands in her sweater pockets, a sweater that looked like it was Tyler's, which probably was since it said "Film Club".
"Jo" Danny finally says.
Jo's hair looked different, still messy but good. She had very intense black eyeliner around her eyes, which made her beautiful blue eyes stand out.
"What are you doing here?" Jo answers coldly.
"I think he's selling something" Tyler jokes.
"We were just dropping off your sister home" Danny answers, looking at Phoebe's brother then at his best friend.
Jo looks inside the car and sees Lacey. "Right." Jo says.
"Jo, we need to talk" Danny says.
"Jesus Danny, I don't have time for this, LEAVE" Jo says.
"Jo you need to listen to me-I" Danny starts.
"Look I think you should go man, we are I'll tired, thanks for bringing Phoebe home alright? Have a Good night buddy" Tyler says putting his arms around Jo, they go inside the house.
Danny stands there motionless. Lacey observes him, she frowns her eyebrows. "I need to go home" Lacey says as she starts her car again. Danny gets inside the old car, they start driving away. "THAT went well …" he says.
Lacey does a fake amateur grin " What do you expect? For her to just listen to you and everything will be fine?".
Danny glances at Lacey.
"That was such an idiot move" Lacey remarks madly, "I don't know why you did that, I told you to not get out of the car" she continues
"Are you okay?" Danny starts asking.
Lacey looks at him in disbelief. "Am I okay? … The question is Are YOU Okay?" , "You think it's just okay to do imprudent things, like you don't think before you act"
Danny looks at Lacey's hands on the wheel, they were shaking, her eyes looked furious.
" …. What's wrong?" Danny asks worried. Lacey shakes her head.
"Lacey! ….. STOP THE CAR!" Danny yells.
Lacey starts going faster. The speed limit in the residential area was 25mph. "Lacey! SLOW DOWN! Your driving at 55 miles per hour! STOP!" Danny yells.
Lacey stops the car abruptly. She starts breathing hardly, her whole body is shaking and sweating.
"Lacey what's wrong? What's wrong?" Danny starts touching her.
"DON'T TOUCH ME!" Lacey screams.
"Lace- Lacey, what's going on?" Danny worries.
Starts controlling her breathing. "I'm sorry" she finally says.
Danny's eyes are wide-open looking at her.
"I'll take you home" she continues.
"What?" Danny asks. "I'll take you home" Lacey smiles with teary eyes.
*It takes about 8 minutes to get to Danny's house, the streets were abandoned no one was on the road*
She parks in front of Danny's house, Danny takes off his seatbelt. They stay in the car silent until Danny speaks up "Are you going to tell me what happened back there?"
She looked completely different from how she was 15 minutes ago.
Lacey takes a deep breath. "I just think you shouldn't have tried talking to Jo" Lacey says.
"That's not it, you're not gonna get like this because of that" Danny says. "Tell me the truth".
Lacey looks down, bites her lip, and slowly looks up at him.
"Tonight has been wicked crazy" she replies.
"Don't Lie to –" Danny starts.
"Today I went to some party where I was suppose to have fun with my friends, but I actually almost ended up getting arrested, oh wait not only that, I hooked up with someone I shouldn't hooked up with again, meaning my childhood murderer best friend, I had to jump off from the 2nd floor, then I'm still trying to work things out with my other so called best friend but she clearly hates you , so she decided to hate me as well tonight, my girls night went wrong, but wait that's not all, then Someone decided to just barge into my ex former childhood best friend to talk to her and apologize, who she clearly hates both us, and as that is going on, I get a text from my Lovely father telling me he is getting married to my childhood gymnastics coach in two weeks, like I said wild night. " Lacey finally finishes with a fake smile on her face and teary eyes.
"Your dad what? He's …." Danny is shocked.
"Yeah, my father is Gay" Lacey nods her head trying to re confirm herself that idea.
"I didn't know, when did this happen? … I know your parents were getting divorced while I was in juvie but I didn't think it was because …" he continues. Danny honestly didn't know this was happening in Lacey's life, how could he be so clueless to what was happening in the life of someone he cared for so much.
"Well, I didn't know either. I probably wouldn't even know if it wasn't for Jo" Lacey answers in a serious face.
"Jo knew?" Danny asks even more shocked.
"Hmmhm.." Lacey perks her lips.
"I'm sorry, this must be so tough for you, I didn't-" Danny says.
"I'm sorry too Danny, I'm sorry too, but that's just the way to cookie crumbles" Lacey nods her head and lick her lips. " So your home, and I'm gonna go" Lacey says trying to stay strong.
Danny lets himself go and hugs her. Lacey tries to stop him, but he's stronger than her.