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After their impromptu boo loving session in the stairwell, Danny and Lacey returned to the lunch room to gather their things. They walked in hand in hand, happy to be together. Thankfully, Sarita was gone. She was so disgusted about making an ass of herself, that she just left without a word to anyone. But that didn't mean that the wheels weren't spinning on her plans to sabotage Danny and Lacey's relationship. She now wanted more than ever to break them up. Sarita was truly convinced they were sleeping together, although she was wrong. She just didn't understand how they could be so involved with each other in such a short period of time. It just didn't make sense.
What does Lacey have that I don't have?
What Sarita didn't and couldn't understand was that Danny and Lacey are soul mates. That's a bond she can't break, though she's definitely gonna try. She might even succeed. But that won't ever make Danny want her. He has already made it clear that he would rather be by himself, than be with her. Sarita is a truly disturbed girl who needs help. The way she's going about destroying what they have or could have is terrible. And then she's trying to destroy Cole in the process. Somebody that has nothing to do with her demons. The fact that Cole isn't out and her threatening to tell his secret is truly rotten. All because Danny broke up with her. It is maddening.
As they approach the table they see Phoebe and Regina talking. Phoebe looks up and smiles at them holding hands.
"Is everything ok?" Phoebe asks in concern.
"Yeah. Danny had to give me a pep talk. Everything is good now. Thanks. And sorry for making you guys uncomfortable." Lacey says to Phoebe and Regina. They both really don't care and don't need her to apologize because Sarita started all the chaos.
"You don't have to apologize, Lacey." Phoebe says.
"Yeah. Sarita is ridiculous sometimes. Don't sweat it." Says Regina as she gives her a genuine smile. A smile that hiding a lot of secrets of her own. Regina truly isn't a bad person, she just makes bad, really bad decisions.
"Well, I wanted to apologize anyway." Lacey says as she smiles at both of them. "Phoebe, I'll see you at practice, and Regina I'll see you later." Lacey says as they all grab their things to leave.
"Ok. Later, Lacey." Phoebe says. "I'll meet you by your locker later."
"See ya." Says Regina.
Lacey makes it through the rest of the day without any more incidents. She was excited about watching Danny practice, because she doesn't know what to expect. After English, they talked briefly in the hallway before he had to leave to change.
"You know, I still don't know what I'm supposed to do while you practice. Am I just supposed to talk and stare at you the whole time?" Lacey asks while she leans against the wall and folds her arms across her chest.
"Yup. That's exactly what you do. Then when we finish, you can come take a shower with me." He says while he grins at her. Lacey's eyes get huge and then she breaks out into a smile.
"How am I gonna come and take a shower with you when the whole team will be there, Danny?" Lacey asks him while feeding into his way of making a joke.
"Easy. I'll just tell everybody to leave. I am the team captain, afterall. They pretty much have to do what I say. Plus, I'll need help with my hair."
"Why do I get the feeling that your hair is the last thing on you want me to help you with?" Lacey says, dimples on full blast.
"You got me. I need you to wash my back."
"Bye, Danny." Lacey says as she tries to walk away. He grabs her hand and pulls her back for a quick kiss. "I'm going to meet Phoebe. I'll see you at the field, Captain Desai."
"Bye Lacey." Danny states as he stares at her walking down the hallway.
She calls back without breaking her stride, "You're staring at my butt again, aren't you Desai?"
I sure am.
Lacey meets Phoebe at her locker. She puts in the books she doesn't need and takes out the things she does.
"Are you excited?" Phoebe asks her.
"Actually, I am. Probably because I don't know what to expect." She says as she shuts her locker and she and Phoebe start to walk down the hall and out the building towards the football field.
"I know what you're excited about." Phoebe teases, then laughs.
"What?"
"You're excited about seeing your hot boyfriend running around the field in that jersey and tight pants."
"I plead the fifth." Lacey says as she nudges Phoebe and smiles.
"You don't have to tell me, because I already know. That's my main reason for going." Phoebe admits, although she is a very dedicated girlfriend. Joe really doesn't deserve her.
They both laugh as they continue to walk to the football field.
The guys are in the locker room changing into their practice gear. Joe has waited for this moment all day.
"So here we are Desai. Spill it." Joe says while lacing up his cleats.
"Spill what?" Archie asks.
"What it was like banging Lacey last night." Joe says.
"You banged Lacey last night? Damn that was fast." Archie asks, stunned.
Cole still hasn't said anything. He's too busy thinking about what that bitch Sarita wants him to do. If he doesn't, just the way they're talking now could become awkward. He doesn't want his teammates thinking they can't talk or undress in front of him. He's not at all attracted to any of them in that way. But it's hard convincing guys that even though you like guys, you don't like them. He likes other gay guys, Rico in particular. The way he feels about Rico and his sister is totally different. He would probably kill Sarita if he could.
"Do not listen to him guys, he doesn't know what he's talking about." Danny says while slipping on his pads.
"So you didn't bang Lacey last night?" Archie asks.
"Yes, he did." Joe says.
"I'm not answering that, Archie. I have nothing to tell you guys."
"What? You're still not gonna spill, Desai?" Joe asks incredulous.
"I told you earlier that I didn't have anything to tell you." Danny says, a look of annoyance on his face. Sometimes Joe just didn't know when to shut the hell up.
"You see what I mean guys? He obviously hit it, and now he doesn't wanna tell us."
"But how do you know that, Joe?" Archie really has no idea what the hell is going on.
"Because he went over there, and they come to school today holding hands and saying they're a couple. What does that tell you?"
"Wait. You guys are a couple now?" Archie asks. It's amazing how things just seem to fly over Archie's head sometimes.
"Yeah." Danny says, without hesitation.
"Wow." Archie says out loud even though he didn't mean to.
"Do you have a problem with that, Yates?" Danny asks him.
"Naw. No problem, Cap." Archie says. He's kind of disappointed because he might have wanted to ask Lacey out. That's a done deal now that she's dating Danny.
"Do you guys see how defensive he gets about her? He clearly hit it." Joe says, just loving to hear the sound of his own voice.
"Joe, why don't you do what Farrell is doing and keep your damn mouth shut?" Danny stops dressing and says to Joe. Joe has really been getting on his damn nerves lately.
"I'm not shutting up until you give us the gory details. We all wanna know what it's like banging a fat chick, but we don't have the balls to do it." Joe laughs, and he's the only one laughing. He hasn't noticed the look on Danny's face.
"Didn't I fucking ask you not to call her that?" Danny says with a tone in his voice that people rarely hear. All of the other guys have stopped what they're doing and are just looking at him. None of them like to get Danny upset. He's a totally different person when he's upset.
"What? I'm just stating the obvious. I didn't say she was ugly, she'd actually be hot if she lost a few." Joe says, clearly not noticing the change in Danny's demeanor. Before anybody knew what was gonna happen, Danny charged at him. Luckily, Cole is freakishly strong and stopped Danny from crashing in to him. It actually took Archie to help him.
"Dude! What the fuck?! I was just kidding!" Joe says. "Damn, Desai. Can't you take a joke?"
"I don't think that shit is funny. Do not ever call Lacey names again in front of me. Behind my back either. Matter of fact, don't talk about Lacey at all." Danny has somewhat calmed down, and Cole releases him once he knows Danny isn't going to attack Joe.
"Ok, ok. I won't talk about Lacey anymore." Joe says it, but doesn't really mean it. He and Danny have been friends since they were 4. He won't ever hit him. He knows he was just doing that to get out of talking about screwing Lacey.
Joe really had no idea just how serious Danny is about him disrespecting the girl he loves.
"Are you cool now, Danny?" Cole finally speaks.
"Yeah. Thanks man." Danny says as he grabs his helmet and walks out of the locker room.
Once Joe sees that Danny is out of earshot he says, "Do you guys see what I mean? There's no way he didn't have sex with her and he's acting like that."
Cole, Archie and the rest of the team just look at him, too scared to say anything. They understood that Danny meant what he said. Joe would find that out the hard way all on his own.
Lacey notices how some of the girls that came to the practice are dressed. She tried not to feel some kinda way about it. But they were a little too obvious in what they were doing there.
"It's sickening, isn't it?" Phoebe asks suddenly.
"Huh?"
"It's sickening how these girls dress to come watch them practice."
"How did you know I was thinking that?" Lacey asks Phoebe.
"Because I'm thinking it too, and I see the look on your face. But don't worry. Danny never pays any of them any attention."
Lacey let out a breath she didn't know she had held in. "Good. I don't think I can compete with that." She says, while eyeing a girl with a skirt so short she shouldn't even be wearing one.
"But you know that you don't have to, right?" Phoebe asks her.
"What do you mean, Phoebe?" Lacey asks in concern.
"You don't have to try to compete with these girls, Lacey. I've known Danny forever. I've never seen him look at anybody the way he looks at you."
"Really?" Lacey asks in surprise.
"Yes, really. So don't worry. If he wanted one of these girls, he'd have already had them."
"Thanks, Pheebs."
"No problem, Lacey."
They just sit quietly for a moment when they see Danny walk on to the field by himself. He spots Lacey and waves, instant smile on his face.
Damn he looks good in that uniform. Shit.
Now Lacey is wondering how she'll be able to stand watching him practice while he looks like that. She then sees Cole, Archie, Joe and some guys she doesn't really know yet walk on to the field too. Cole looks good in his uniform too. She's just now noticing how built he is. Cole is a really good-looking guy.
But he doesn't hold a candle to my baby.
Lacey starts to giggle at her thoughts. Phoebe looks over at her like she's crazy.
"What's up with you?" Phoebe questions.
"Nothing." Lacey says, and starts blushing.
"Nothing, huh? You're thinking of how good Cole looks, but that he isn't as hot as Danny. And you're picturing Danny out of his uniform." Phoebe states with confidence.
Is this chick psychic?!
"How are you doing that, Phoebe? You're starting to freak me out." Lacey says as a joke even though she partly means it.
Phoebe just laughs. "I'm psychic." Both girls crack up laughing. They sit and watch as the guys go through their drills. Then they see Danny warming his arm up and Cole and Joe are doing runs. Danny then starts to throw the ball down the field. They notice he isn't throwing anything to Joe.
I wonder what that's all about.
Their coach notices too because he walks over to Danny. Whatever he said to him made him change his approach, because he starts to throw the ball to Joe. And Phoebe was right. Cole is better than Joe. And she also notices that Danny has a really good arm, and it instantly turned her on.
Practice ends and the guys head to the locker room to shower. Danny hasn't said a word to anybody. He just showers and changes. He does tell everybody "Later" as he walks out. He heads back to the field to get Lacey. Whatever was on his mind left as soon as he walked up to her. He couldn't wait to give her a kiss.
"Hey Lace. Thanks for staying."
"It was my pleasure." She says. They both tell Phoebe goodbye and head to his car, hand in hand again.
As they get into the car Danny asks, "Where to gorgeous?"
"Wherever you wanna go is fine."
"Do you want to come to my house? You can meet my parents." Danny says.
"You want me to meet your parents?"
"Of course. Why, you don't want to?"
"No, of course I do. Nevermind. I'll be happy to meet your parents, Danny."
"Good."
They drive in a comfortable silence until they reach his house. Lacey is amazed to see that his house is like a mansion. He mentioned his parents had money, but damn.
"What do your parents do, Danny?" Lacey asks in amazement.
"Uh, my dad is in Real Estate. Kind of like Donald Trump, I guess. My mom just spends his money."
Lacey laughs at that.
They enter the house and Danny calls out that he's home. His mom comes in holding the cutest little dog. Lacey recognizes her. She's the woman from the diner when they first moved there.
"Hi Sweetheart. And is it Lacey or Clara?" Karen asks. She recognized Lacey too. Danny looks between both of them, confused.
Lacey smiles. "It's Lacey."
Danny is really confused about what is going on. He didn't tell his mother anything about Lacey yet, just that he had a new girlfriend. "What's going on?"
"Our moms went to high school together." Lacey says while smiling. It's obvious Danny didn't know that.
"Really? Small world."
"See. I told you I'd get my son to introduce you to his friends." Karen says as she smiles at Lacey. Lacey reaches out to pet the dog and Danny warns her.
"Sadie doesn't like anybody but my mother. She will bite you." Danny says, but he's wrong. Sadie starts to lick Lacey's hand and Lacey is loving it.
"Shut up Danny." Karen says. "Sadie seems to love Lacey."
"That's a first. That dog doesn't like anybody." Danny says.
"She's just a good judge of character, Danny. Lacey is a keeper." Karen says as she starts to walk up the stairs.
Yes she is. I plan on keeping her around for a long time.
To be continued...