Jo sat across from Lacey in their favorite place to eat. It was the same place that she would hang out with Rico after school before Danny arrived, and a little after he arrived. Now it seems as if she goes there to meet up with different people, not just Rico anymore. Jo smiled at her best friend. They had been sitting in the same booth just talking for the past thirty minutes.
"Honestly, what do you think of me being with Danny?" Jo asked, knowing and wanting the real answer. Jo was a stubborn girl, and when she asked a question she wanted the real answer. In a sense, she didn't even care if the truth was the worst thing that she had ever heard. She hated being lied to and wanted the truth. That was something she got from her dad.
"I'm fine with it, honestly. I told him that I loved someone else before we even broke up. He told me that he had feelings for someone else, but we both decided to try and make it work. It just wasn't working out, and there was nothing either of us could do." Lacey said. She didn't appear to be upset about Jo being with Danny, so Jo just smiled at her.
Jo and Lacey had made a lot of improvement in their friendship as time has went on, and Jo was glad that everything was great between them now. Jo liked how it felt that they never stopped being friends sometimes. Jo liked the feeling of them being best friends again, and she liked how Lacey was okay with her dating Danny.
"You're good with me being with Rico? I mean I know you all broke up months ago, but I just wanted to check. If you aren't okay with it then of course I won't be with him. Our friendship means more to me than some guy." Lacey said with a soft smile.
"Of course I'm fine with it. Rico and I just weren't meant to be a couple. Plus about two months after we broke up I could tell that he liked you." Jo said as she started to giggle.
Lacey looked at her as her smile grew. "You could? How?" Lacey didn't realize that other people could tell that he liked her, and sometimes she couldn't even tell that Rico liked her. Lacey liked knowing that someone could tell that he liked her before they got together. That was something that brought a smile to her face.
"Well, first everytime you came around he just changed. He didn't act like his normal anti-social self. Then I may have caught him writing your name down on a piece of paper. Then there was this one day I caught him pretending he was going to ask you out to practice what he would say." Jo was happy that her two best friends were so happy together. Everyone deserved a chance at love, and Rico and Lacey had something very special.
Lacey started laughing and smiled. "That sounds exactly like Rico. Thanks for being so cool with this though. I really like him."
Looking down at the time, Jo started to get out of her seat. The two have been sitting in the same booth for the past two hours. "Where has the time gone? I should head home." She said with a soft smile.
Lacey smiled back at her friend and nodded her head in agreement. Besides they both had plans with the men that they were with now, and neither one of them couldn't wait to be with their men.
Jo smiled and walked over and hugged her friend. "We'll have to hang out again sometime soon." She had missed hanging out with Lacey over the five years that they stopped being friends until they were sixteen. Even when Danny came back to Green Grove and the girls were the only two people that believed he was innocent, they still didn't hang out like they had wished they would. Now things were changing, and Jo couldn't be any happier.
"Maybe you can come over and spend the night sometime. Just like old times." Lacey smiled as the two friends walked out of the cafe. Jo agreed and smiled as they then got into different cars. Jo couldn't wait to get back to her house to get ready for her first actual date with Danny, but she had to talk to her mom about some things first.