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Pairing name: Jeah
Signature: There was a tie between "LeahC" and "L.C."… I decided on LeahC as it felt the most…. Leah if you get what I mean.

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"But da-ad." I moaned.

"Don't but dad me."

"Then why can't I go?"

"Because I say so."

"Not a real answer! If you can't give me a reason then why not let me go?" I wheel after dad when he moves around in the kitchen.

"Leah," he stops and kneels down. "Even though it might seem impossible to you but I've been a teenager myself and I know that sleepover at a friend's, actually means the night when friend's parents are away so that you can sneak out and go to a party." I gave a short laugh.

"Dad… don't you trust me?"

"I trust you but not that Lex. I don't know her, I don't know her parents…." I pulled up a paper from my pocket and reached it to dad.

"If you want to know who Lex and Mr. and Mrs. Hudmel is… call them yourself…" Dad looked on the paper- where I'd written down the numbers to them all three, then he sighed, and seemed to be thinking whether he should say yes or no. "Oh please dad, at least give it a try. Pretty, pretty please." Dad eventually nodded, took the paper and walked into the living room. Ariel came tripping into the room, I lifted her up on my lap and started scratching that very special point behind her head.

Even though Ariel was yet just a puppy- her fur was really, really thick, as I pulled my fingers through the many layers of hair, she licked my face so my chin and cheeks all soaked, I suddenly had an idea about writing a poem about her, and stopped scratching, then she looked up at me and her eyes just begged me to continue, so I did, and the next second- the idea about the poem was long gone.

I wheeled into my room with Ariel on my lap, lifted myself onto the bed, and took a toy for Ariel up from the bedside table, then lifted Ariel onto the bed, then started playing with her, only about fifteen minutes later dad came into the room again. I stopped playing, and looked hopeful up at him, he smiled.

"You may go." I breathed out, and sat up fully and pulled myself towards the foot of the bed. Dad came over and hugged me.

"Thanks dad."

"But… if you're now lying." Dad smirked to let me know he was joking. "If you go to a party…. You'll be grounded, without TV or computer for the rest of your life." I smiled, dad sat down by me, and laid his arm around my shoulders.

"You're growing up princess." One of the thousands of nicknames he'd had on me since I was little. "It's gonna be hard."

"Dad." I laughed. "I've been to sleepovers before, don't you remember that I and Hannah used to have them all the time." Hannah Miller and I had been best friends from kindergarten, all the while through primary and secondary school, then she'd moved to Benton's harbor, thousands of miles away from Lima.

"Yeah I know." Dad sighed. "But it was a whole other thing when you were six then now when your sixteen. I mean… right now you're a sophomore, but it won't be long until you graduate, and then you'll find your prince, move out and then you'll come home one day- and tell me I'm gonna be a grandpa… and I'm going to look at you and ask myself where my little girl went." Dad smiled slightly, I snuggled up tighter towards his chest.

"Dad… I'm always gonna be your little girl, and I may find my prince but you will always be my king." Dad pulled me even closer, Ariel climbed up in my lap too, and I started scratching her tummy. We sat like that for a couple of minutes, then I heard a signal from my computer, I stood up enough to sit down in the chair by the desk.

"Jackie McCall is calling" I pressed to answer the call. "Hi Jack." I greeted my boyfriend who was visible on the screen- he lived in Benton's harbor, and these facebook- video- chats was usually how we kept the contact- between the few times we met- and I hadn't met Jack since the beginning of July- before the accident.

"Hey Leah. Hey Mr. Carmichael." Jack raised in a wave to my dad behind me.

"Hello Jackie… how many times do I need to tell you? You just call me Abram."

"And how many times do I need to tell you? You just call me Jack." I shook my head at the two. They always started with this whenever they met- usually they called each other Abram and Jack- but they had been doing this every time they met- since it was their first conversation when Jack was visiting us for the first time a year ago.

I looked to my dad- he nodded and walked out of the room- closing the door behind him.

"We arrived home late yesterday- I fell asleep in the car that's why I wasn't by the laptop anything in the afternoon."

"Okay… well… happy birthday for yesterday… You'll get the present from me next time I see you…"

"Jack, Jack" jumping in my chair I interrupted. "You will never guess what mum, dad and Jonah gave me for my birthday." I looked around to find Ariel, she laid on the floor between the bed and the wardrobe, chewing on Buddy's ear, a ripping sound was heard.

"…And the present just ripped of Buddy's ear", I pushed the chair slowly towards her, lifted her up in my lap where Jack couldn't see her, and rolled back to the desk. Then I held her in front of the laptop.

"This is Ariel." Jack smiled from ear to ear. Ariel sniffed the laptop- as if she believed Jack was really there, and then licked it, I and Jack laughed.

"Congratulations of having become a dog- owner. What breed is she? She looks like she's going to grow quite big before she's done."

"She's a pyrenear, so yeah, she'll grow huge. Look at him Ariel." I pointed to the screen and Jack. "Who's that… that's Jack, say hi to Jack Ariel." Smiling I looked from Ariel to Jack- but I got more and more nervous- I hadn't told Jack that I was in a wheelchair- I hadn't dared to tell him- what if he'd leave me if I did?

"Listen Jack," I said. "There is something…" I was interrupted, when Jack's little sister was shown on the screen, as she climbed up in Jack's lap.

"Hey Leah." She interrupted me, I smiled, took Ariel's paw in my hand and waved it.

"Hey Megan." I answered. "How are things working out for you?"

"They're going swell." Megan smiled, showing a glug where she should have had her front teeth. "I thought it was your birthday yesterday."

"Yes it was, and here you see what my parents and my brother gave me," I lifted Ariel a little, Megan smiled.

"Megan." Jack lifted his sister down to the floor again. "You gotta leave now, I have to talk to Leah about something."

"Okay. Bye Leah, bye cute little puppy." I laughed at Megan, then she was out of Jack's room. Jack sighed, he seemed serious.

"Leah- I know I said I'd try to get to Lima over Halloween… but something got in the way- my parents are going on this business- trip then- I have to stay here and take care of Megan- and there's just no way we can pay for all the train- tickets. I am so, so, so, sorry but I won't be able to make it." Jack sighed, I did too, and lifted Ariel up in my lap again. "Was it something you wanted to tell by the way?" I thought a split second about telling him about the chair and everything, but then I shook my head.

"No…"

"Leah…"

"Is that mum calling for dinner?" I looked up, as if mum had actually shouted for dinner- which she hadn't. "…Yep… I gotta go. Bye, love you."

"Leah… Le…" I turned the video- chat off before Jack had the time to say anything else. I pushed the desk- chair over to the bed, got onto the bed, and lifted Ariel to lay down next to me. There was a lump in my throat, as tears slowly started dripping from my eyes, my cheeks to the pillow. Ariel seemed to know I didn't want to play right now as she laid down on my pillow, and started licking away the tears from my cheeks, I patted her, sniveled.

"Leah," dad came and opened the door. "dinner's ready."

"I'm not hungry." I answered in a thick voice.

"What's going on?" Dad came and sat down on my bed, laying a hand on my shoulder, I rolled around and sat up.

"Jack won't be able to make it here for Halloween, they can't afford the train- tickets." Dad smiled and pulled me close again.

"There dear. It's okay you'll meet again. We both know the McCall's haven't got too much money- they sometimes need to priority other things. I know it's hard now…. But Christmas will soon be here- and then we're going to Benton Harbor to meet both Jackie and Hannah." I smiled through the tears- we had decided in January that me, mum, dad and Jonah (and Ariel of course) would be going to Michigan for Christmas. I sniveled again, and lifted Ariel up as she was "begging" me to do so, then she licked away the last few tears.

"I love you." I whispered to her, and buried my face in her fur again, dad looked- pretending to be offended to me.

"I love you too dad." I said. He smiled. "By the way… Have you got any old banana cartons anywhere?"

"No…. but moving boxes I think we should have some left, what for?"

"I gotta remove the stuffed dogs from here, before Ariel breaks all of them, she's already chewed of Buddy's ear." Dad chuckled.

"I'll help you with that…. But first we gotta eat dinner, come on Tiger." He stood up and lifted me into the wheelchair, then I wheeled towards the kitchen to eat dinner.

Okay… oh yeah, that was what I was gonna tell. I've got ideas for several of the bigger happenings in this, the thing is, I've got almost no ideas for what will happen in between them, I've got ideas for "next week" then I've got nothing until Christmas, so if you have any ideas please PM me or leave them in a review.

I've got an idea about one thing I could do- and probably am going to do. In Secrets revealed it's all about Lex, we know that. I was thinking to more "weave in" parts of the other glee- clubbers lives and stories in this. How does that sound?