AN: Per DramaQueen1103's request, here is Misery Business.

I don't own the show or the song. (No surprise there.)


Second chances they don't ever matter, people never change – Paramore

April Nardini had been dating Freddy Brown since freshman year. They started dating in the fall, and then she had to move away. They did the long distance thing the rest of that year, and rekindled their relationship when she came to visit her dad in Stars Hollow for the summer. Some how he convinced her, to convince her mother that she needed, no wanted, to stay in Connecticut with Luke.

It was now the spring of her sophomore year, and she and Freddy were going strong, as long as he didn't get to close to Luke, who still called him Freddy Freddy Apple Brown Betty and was fiercely overprotective.

"April, it's not what you think!" Freddy pleaded with her outside the diner.

"She's the biggest slut in our class Freddy!" April shouted, her face flushed with anger. Not thirty minutes ago she caught Freddy with his arm around Missy Stone, in her too short mini skirt and too tiny tube top, and she was whispering seductively in his ear.

"She was asking me to help her with her biology homework!" he shouted back.

"Sure. And somehow that required you to put your arm around her and bring her closer, and her to whisper the request in your ear!"

"She has laryngitis! I couldn't hear her otherwise!" Freddy's face was red with anger as well.

"Ha! You're a bigger idiot than I thought if you fell for that one!"

"It's true!" he told her. "At least I thought it was true," he added. She turned on her heel and headed towards the door of the diner. "April!"

"I never want to see you again!" she screamed and slammed the door.


Luke looked up from his position at the counter to see his daughter angrily storm past him and head up the stairs.

April sat down on her bed in her dad's apartment and fumed with anger. How dare he treat her like that? It was times like this that she missed her mom the most. She picked up the phone to call her in New Mexico but stopped when she heard the door to the apartment open.

"You okay?" her dad asked hesitantly as he poked his head in the door.

"I'll be fine Dad."

"Want to tell me what that was all about?"

"Nope." There were some things that a girl could never discuss with her father, and this was one of them.

"All right, well tell me if you need anything."

"Thanks Dad." He left the room and she flopped back on the bed to call her mother.


The phone rang three times before her mother picked up.

"Hello?" Anna answered.

"Hi Mom," April said, trying to hold herself together.

"What's wrong baby? Is it Luke?" her mother asked. She'd been living with Luke for almost nine months now, and never had a problem, but every time she called her mom, Anna always assumed Luke had done something.

"No Dad's fine," April reassured her.

"Then what is it?" As if Luke were the only possible cause of grief in her teenage daughter's life.

"It's Freddy," she said angrily.

"Uh-oh," Anna started. "What'd he do?"

"Oh Mom," April whined, then launched into her tale of woe. After she'd finished her mother was silent for a few moments. "Well?"

"What if she really did want his help April?" Anna asked her.

"She didn't," April insisted.

"How do you know?"

"She doesn't care about grades. She hasn't for years!"

"And she couldn't possibly change?"

"No!" April said resolutely.

"April…" Anna warned.

"Fine. She could have changed. But I doubt it."

"Don't you think you should give Freddy a chance to explain?"

"He did explain!"

"Okay, aside from your opinions about Missy Stone's character, do you have any reason to doubt Freddy?" Anna asked.

"Well… no."

"I think you need to trust Freddy, at least until he gives you a reason not to."

"But…" April started.

"I'm not telling you to blindly follow everything he says, but remember it's innocent until proven guilty not the other way around."

"If that's the case, then why do you assume that every time I call it's because Dad's done something wrong?" April asked trying to change the subject.

"That's not fair April. I've known your dad a lot longer than you've known Freddy," Anna told her.

"And Dad's never done anything to upset me!" April said defensively.

"April, that's enough. You don't know the whole story, and we're not discussing this any further," her mother said sharply. "Now, you're 15. You're going to do what you want to do about Freddy. I'm just telling you to use your scientific nature and don't leap to conclusions."

"Whatever Mom." April sighed and rolled her eyes. "I've gotta go."

"I love you April," Anna said in closing.

"I love you too Mom." April hung up the phone and pushed herself off the bed.


She walked into the diner and sat at one of the bar stools. She opened the donut display case and helped her self to a chocolate cake donut with frosting and sprinkles, and waited for Luke to come talk to her. She picked at the sprinkles and waited to be scolded for spoiling her dinner.

"Did talking to your mom help?" Luke asked as he stopped in front of her on the other side of the counter.

"How did you know?" she asked.

"If it was anyone else you'd still be on the phone," he said with a small smile, knowing his daughter's talkative nature. "So did it help?"

"Not really," she said with a sigh.

"Oh." Luke looked down at his feet, then back up at her. "Can I get you something to drink with that donut?"

"Hot chocolate with whipped cream?" she asked hopefully.

"I suppose," he said, even though she knew he didn't approve of all of that sugar. He walked into the kitchen to get her drink and she continued to pick at her donut.

He set the cup of steaming cocoa in front of her, and turned to walk away again. "Hey Dad?" she called after him.

"Yeah?" He stopped and turned to face her again.

"How do you know when to trust someone?"

"Aww geez April," he stuttered. "Is this about a boy?"

"Yeah," she said quietly.

"Do you have a reason not to trust him?" Luke asked suspiciously, and she could tell he would pounce at the hint of trouble.

"No. Well… just what I saw with my own eyes. But he swears it wasn't what it looked like," April found herself defending Freddy to her father.

Luke looked at her and ran his hands over his backwards facing baseball cap. "Uh, I guess, things aren't always what they seem. You shouldn't jump to conclusions without all the facts," he told her.

She sighed. "That's basically what Mom said."

"Well, your mom is a smart lady," Luke said.

April hopped of her barstool and took her cup of cocoa with her. "I'm going to go call Freddy," she told him with a smile. "Thanks Dad."

"No problem kid." He ruffled her hair as she walked by him to get up the stairs.


Her heart raced as the phone rang, and she wondered if he'd even answer his call.

"April, hey!" Freddy said when he picked up the phone after the fourth ring.

"I'm, uh, sorry," she told him quickly.

"Me too. I didn't think about how bad it would look when I put my arm around her. I just really couldn't hear her," he explained.

"I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions. So are you going to help her?"

"Nah. There are plenty of other people at school that can tutor her in biology. I happen to think that some people never change. I don't know what she wants but I'm fairly certain it's more than biology help."

"Exactly!" April said in agreement.

"So, do you want to study together this afternoon?" Freddy asked hopefully.

"I'll meet you at the Stars Hollow library in 20 minutes!"


AN: This one was completely random. I have no idea where it came from, or why the song inspired it, but there you have it. I hope you enjoy it, and I'd like to know what you'd like to see next!

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