Notes: The beginning of the chapter is for email addresses but wouldn't accept them.

To: StanTheMan (), LeviTheLawyer(), DavidandSally(bellsouth), CanadianPrincess(), Momof3inGA()

From: OVWGrad()

Subject: I'm going stir crazy, , , From: Subject: I'm going stir crazy

I thought I'd like the downtime but this is driving me crazy! They have left for the European tour and I'm stuck here. Help! Okay most of you are going to be at dinner at mom's but call me and save me from boredom.

Danny

Five minutes after he sent the email there was an IM.

StanTheMan: Yo Danny you wanna trade? I've got a term paper due this week.

OVWGrad: No thanks. I'm not that bored.

StanTheMan: So what's this about a dinner at your mom's?

OVWGrad: Mom's having a get together is all.

StanTheMan: Oh.

OVWGrad: I'll call mom and tell her you are coming. So how's school?

StanTheMan: Don't ask. You are the smart one for not going to college.

Danny chuckled.

StanTheMan: Oh man. I gotta go. I'm going to be late for a class. Email me the details on the dinner.

Danny turned the computer off and stood up and looked at the clock on the wall. It was still early in the day, and he really had nothing to do that day except go to the laundromat. That didn't sound like a good idea to him. He'd put that off as long as he could.

He picked up his cellphone and decided to call his mother.

"Hello?" Nancy George asked.

"Hi mom it's me." Danny said into the phone.

"Oh hey Daniel." Her voice brightened. "Are you home?"

"Yeah. I'm home for the next couple of weeks."

"Good."

Danny could tell she was smiling. "Is it okay if Stan comes to dinner Saturday?"

"That's more then fine." She was silent for a moment. "How were the shows?"

It meant a lot to him that his mother wanted to know how the shows went. He knew she didn't much like having him in the sport but he still felt like the kid who wanted to please his mother, even if he did a lot of stuff that didn't please her.

"It went great. I'm just disappointed that I'm not on the European tour."

"Well take the time to relax you won't have much time for that." She reminded him.

"Thanks mom. I needed to hear you say this."

"Daniel I may not agree with what you are doing, but I know there isn't anything I can do. You are almost twenty-one-years old. I can't keep babying you."

"Thanks."

"I'm meeting Jason for lunch. I'll talk to you later." She said and hung up.

Daniel looked in his refrigerator and realized he didn't have anything for lunch either. His roommate, Ben "BK" Kotaska, was on the tour in Europe.

He quickly made a list of groceries before heading for the elevator. He went down to the parking garage and something made him turn around feeling that he was being watched but he didn't see anything and got into his car.

"What an interesting flat." Stephanie said as she followed Cassidy into the apartment she shared with Athena and Megan.

"Thanks." Cassidy said even though she knew her sister was being sarcastic. She really wished that her father hadn't made her pick Stephanie up at the airport. She didn't really want to talk to her older sister.

"So you share this with two other wrestlers?" She asked sitting down in a chair.

"One wrestler actually, Athena Hart, who's in Europe. Megan Benoit, is a PA like me, I think is out with her fiance."

"Oh."

There was silence for a moment.

"Mum says you aren't returning her phone calls."

"I have nothing to say to her." Cassidy said sitting down in a chair also. "She didn't want us to know dad was alive!" She reminded her.

"I still think you misheard her. Mum didn't know he was alive. "How could he? It wasn't like they had said anything about him yet. You are being unfair to mum."

"I am not! Even if she didn't know, she shouldn't have said anything. She always hated dad. She didn't even want us to see him."

"He hit her!"

"He did not!"

"He did too! You just don't remember. I remember and mum told me about it."

"That's because she wanted you to hate dad."

"He's the one who hid away for years."

"He was in a bloody coma. It's not his fault." She reminded her standing up.

"I have no idea why I came here if you won't listen to me." Stephanie said.

"Why are you here?" Cassidy asked her temper starting to show.

"To get you to come home!" Stephanie said showing her own temper. "I don't know why you want to be in this sport. Mum wants you to finish college."

"I'm not going back to college. I'm not going back to England. I'm going to stay here with dad. I'm an adult and half American, so I can stay here." She reminded her.

"Well if something goes wrong, don't come running to me."