[Jake] I'll Drink To That

[Lance James Renner]

Lance sighed as he looked at the empty gym on set. He’d literally checked everywhere. He’d checked Jake’s trailer, the actor who played their younger brothers’ trailer, the offices, where they all could hang out, where they ate. He was nowhere. He hadn’t hung out with Jake in a while and quite honestly he was starting to miss just talking to him. He was a good guy, but at the same time he hadn’t expected that he’d be such good friends with him when he started the show. But he’d seen Lance go through a lot. After him and Dani broke up he pretty much quit taking care of himself. Smoking, drinking on set, not eating at all. He’d lost enough weight for the wardrobe department to complain at least. The break up had been hard on Lance, only for the fact that he’d actually been trying in this one. And he thought she was happy, thought he was happy. Then she ended things for no apparent reason. Jake’s friendship on set had meant the world to him during that time. He just seemed to get it like no one else did.

Lance took his phone out of his pocket and sent Jake a quick text, ‘ Hey mate, I’ve looked everywhere for you. Are you hiding? Haha, come to my trailer later’ he typed out, pressing send before he slid his phone into his back pocket. Lance walked out of the studio and made his way over to his trailer, opening the door and stepping inside quickly before he kicked it shut with the back of his foot and locked it. Lance pushed the sleeves of his shirt up to his elbows and looked down at his watch. A little past five, well enough to start having a few drinks. It’d been a while since he’d had a drink on set, let alone one with Jake. Lance stood on the chair in his small kitchen and opened the highest cupboard to take down two glasses and a bottle of scotch. After stepping off of his chair he sat down at the small booth that served as their dining table in all of their trailers and slid into it. He broke the seal off of the bottle and twisted off the cap, taking a small whiff of it before he started to pour some into each of the glasses.

Outfit

[Jacob Daniel Russo]

Jake pulled his phone out of his pocket, seeing a text from Lance. They needed some guy time, they both new it. He looked over at Dani, whose trailer he was in currently, sighing. "Hey babe, I'm gonna go hang out with Lance for a few, let me know when you leave to go home." He leaned down to kiss her quickly and then left her trailer, looking both ways to check if anyone had seen him. He texted Lance back, be right there, and then headed his way, only stopping briefly at his own trailer to grab a sweatshirt. As he made his way to Lance's trailer, he knocked on the door after finding it locked. That could only mean only mean one thing. "Dude, it's me, unlock the door." He waited, pulling his hoodie over his head until Lance opened the door and ushered him in, shutting and locking the door behind him. Jake observed the scotch and glasses on the table. "We are so on the same wavelength, man." Jake sat down across from Lance, picking up his already filled glass and took a swig. He set it back down, looking at Lance.

Jake liked having Lance as a friend. He was always around since they were on set so much, and he was an all around great guy. Jake knew Lance had used to date Dani, but Lance did not know that Dani and Jake were dating currently. And it wasn't exactly something Jake was thrilled about, keeping his best friend in the dark like that. He knew as soon as Lance found out, he'd be pissed, but Dani wanted it kept quiet. Jake just didn't know how much longer he could go without telling him. It was his best friend, he told him everything. Surely he couldn't it from him forever.

[Lance James Renner]

Lance looked up as he heard the knock at the door and waited for Jake to say it was him. The last thing he needed was one of the big wigs to come into his trailer and spot the scotch. He grinned, hearing Jake and stood up from the booth, making his way over to the door and opened it wide enough for Jake to come in. “ Hey mate” he said with a yawn, shutting the door behind him and locking it again before he went back to the booth and slid in. “ Ah, glad to hear it. I’ve had a lot on my mind today,” he said, pouring Jake another scotch after he had quickly downed his first one. Lance was glad he had taken on the show for a few reasons. He liked doing something separate from Logan, only for the fact that everyone was so impressed with Logan and what he had accomplished, and sort of looked at Lance with the look of ‘ well what are you going to do to compare to your brother’. Plus, he’d met some amazing people. Jake was definitely included in that. They needed some guy time, mainly for the fact that he needed someone to talk to that wouldn’t judge him for what he was about to say. All of his other friends, were friends with Kiersten. And might take what he had to say out of context.

“ Look, so here’s the thing…” he started off, spinning his scotch glass against the table before he brought it to his lips and had a drink. “ Let me start off by saying that I am in love with Kiersten, and I would not change my current standing with her at all. I didn’t even know love like that was possible, until I just sort of let it overwhelm me,” he said, thinking back to Kiersten. She was the most beautiful person he’d ever known in his entire life. Not just looks wise, the way she processed things, spoke, her passions. All of it made her beautiful. “ I was in the studio the other night with Joel and Dani. She’s recording this song she says she wrote towards the end of our relationship. But Joel said she had written it right after our relationship ended. But… it was .. I don’t know, it’s this song where if you listen to the lyrics, it’s about this guy who basically kept her hidden and they were going ‘round and round’ for a while, and she was sick of it. I asked her so many times when she broke up with me if there was someone else. I don’t want to be back with her, that’s not the point of this. I just don’t want to think that someone who claims to care about me, and is one of my friends, lied to me about something so big. For so long. Because I genuinely thought I was in love with her. And out of nowhere she ends it, so quickly. And to know that she never felt the same way about me… that she felt that way about someone else? I don’t know the word for it… betrayed? How much of our relationship is a lie? From romantic to friendship,… it seems like it’s just coated with lies,” he said, looking back at his glass of scotch and giving a small sigh.

[Jacob Daniel Russo]

Jake listened to Lance, nodded at what he had to say and responding on occasion. Jake looked down into his scotch, hoping he would maybe see something in there that would tell him what he should say. But he knew what he should say, and it wasn't what he'd been not saying all along. Lance knew Dani had had feelings for someone else while they were dating, he knew there had been someone else. He just didn't know that someone had been his best friend, Jake. Jake looked back up at his friend. He'd said he felt betrayed. Betrayed unknowingly by Jake himself. And Dani. Jake hardly even remembered how it had all even happened... It had just started with joking around, and then there had been a look, and then those small moments... Then there had been the point when she'd confronted him. He felt so weird going behind Lance's back. Like, awful. But he couldn't hide his feelings from Dani. And the past nine months had been nothing short of amazing. The second it started, there was no stopping it. They'd kind of just... exploded. It just happened. And Dani had ended things with Lance. And now they were here. And now Jake was here, with Lance, listening to him, clearly upset that he knew Dani had been dishonest. But Jake didn't want to admit that he'd been too. He just knew he didn't have a choice anymore. he had to tell him.

"Lance, dude..." Jake started,, sliding his glass off to the side and dropping his head into his arms on the table, "I have to tell you something. And I think you're going to hate me..." He looked up, rubbing his face, eying Lance carefully, "Dani and I are together. As in,we've been seeing each other... and... I may have been the other guy..." He groaned, dropping his head back into his arms, "Okay, I officially feel like the biggest asshole," he said, his voice muffled against his arms. He knew Lance wouldn't take it well, and why would he? If Jake was in his shoes, he'd be fuckin pissed. He just hoped Lance forgave him. Eventually.

[Lance James Renner]

Lance lifted his drink to his lips but his hand froze just as the glass grazed his bottom lip. He stared at the contents of his drink before he shifted his eyes and looked at Jake. “ What?” he questioned simply, not even knowing how else to respond to that. His girlfriend had broken up with him…. For his best friend? He sat back against the booth, letting his hands drop casually into his lap. “Wait.. I..” he said, shaking his head before he started laughing, looking at Jake. Okay, he was obviously kidding. “ Oh my god, mate. It’s too early to start the comedy routines. I need a few more drinks before that starts,” he said, giving a small shake of his head but he looked at Jake, not laughing. “ Why aren’t you laughing?” he said as his smile dropped and he looked at Jake.

“ Ah bloody hell,” he cursed before he stood up, pacing away from the booth. Lance put his hands on the top of his head as he walked the distance from one end of his trailer to the other, trying to process everything. He had said they were together, currently. That he might have been the other guy. They were dating for almost a year now, and kept it to themselves? Who did that? Lance dropped his hands and walked over to Jake, standing in front of him. “ How long?” he said, not seeing the point in tip-toeing around his questions and just being blunt about it. He shook his head before he raised his voice, yelling at Jake. “ How long?!” he yelled, moving closer to Jake.

[Jacob Daniel Russo]

Jake heard Lance laugh, sure Jake had been kidding. Jake wished he was. Kind of. Of course he didn't wish dating Dani was a joke, that was as serious as cancer. But he wished it wasn't under theses circumstances of betraying his best friend. Jake looked up when he sensed Lance had stood up and watched him pace. Jake felt nervous. He didn't know what Lance was going to say. Jake stood up, pushing himself up from the table and slid out of the booth, looking at Lance nervously when he came closer to him, asking Jake just exactly how long they'd been together. Jake looked down at his fingers, nervously trying to count the months, before Lance asked him again, this time Jake knew he was pissed. Jake answered, trying to be calm, but knew honesty was his best bet at this point. "Nine months." Jake looked at Lance, trying to decide where to start, what to explain, what not to share... what would or wouldn't make Dani pissed at him too. He just wanted Lance to know the truth. "Lance... I wanted to tell you. From the get go. Dani just thought it would look bad if we were dating, since were siblings on the show, that it would piss off Disney. And she didn't want to tell a soul. I wanted to tell you though." Jake felt like he was holding his breath. He knew it wasn't even a good excuse, but it was true. Jake had wanted to be honest from the get go, but he wanted to make Dani happy too.

[Lance James Renner]

Lance had always hated that expression when people said they were so mad that ‘ they could see red’. But now that he was sort of embodying that, he totally understood it. It felt like his blood was literally boiling in his veins as he looked down at one of the people in his life he felt he could always count on. “ Son of a bitch,” he said beneath his breath before he started to step away from Jake. He wanted nothing to do with him, he didn’t even want to look at him. But on his step away , he turned back quickly and clenched his fist as tightly as he could before throwing a punch aimed for Jake. Never in a million years would he have thought he would deck his best friend. There was only one other person in the entire world he’d ever wanted to hit so much, and he knew he’d probably never get the chance to. So to take a swing at Jake really did shock Lance. Then again, at least it was a punch to the face instead of a stab in the back.

“ You might want to put some ice on that. Disney won’t take well when they find out you’ve been in a fight,” he said, shaking his hand out as he put the scotch and glasses away. He scoffed, looking towards his door, deciding whether or not he was calm enough to go talk to Dani. “ Actually, Disney probably won’t be too pleased when your little relationship becomes public. Sort of twisted, parents can’t really explain that to their kids. Dani was right about that. But this should make it easier… you’re a back stabbing bastard and she’s a lying, callous, manipulative sl-.. “ he stopped himself, clenching his jaw. Lance had never gone so low as to call a girl a slut before, and that was one thing he’d certainly not let anger do to himself. Hell, his mother, Parker, Logan, Mackenzie, Kiersten. They’d all be down his throat about that one. He shook his head. “ I’m gonna go talk to your precious girlfriend. See how easy that was. Letting you know. Would’ve been nice nine months ago, mate” he said, flipping Jake off as he headed out of his trailer and made his way to see Dani.

[Dani Marie Cooper]

Dani smiled against Jake’s lips as he kissed her and nodded at the fact that he was going to spend time with Lance before they headed out; separately. She still got the same butterflies in her stomach every time he kissed her just like she had gotten from the first time they kissed. The way she felt about him was literally impossible to describe. It wasn’t just the way he was, it was the way he made her feel about herself when he was around. He challenged her, but she knew that she challenged him, too. She hadn’t expected to fall in love with him, but it was hard not to. Dani took her hair out of her ponytail and shook it out, looking back down at the counter at the different curling irons and hair straighteners to try and figure out which way to do her hair today. Not that it mattered. If they didn’t like it on set, they would just change it anyways. Jake had just left her trailer a few moments before and she was wondering when he would be back. They had some time to ‘rehearse lines’ before she was due on set for her last scene and could go home, probably having Jake over. In all fairness, she knew the only reason that Jake hadn’t told Lance yet was because of her. She was just trying to do what she thought was right for everyone, what would hurt the least. If no one found out about her and Jake, then Disney wouldn’t get mad. Lance wouldn’t have his feelings hurt, and she and Jake would still have their jobs. But that didn’t mean it sucked any less to force her boyfriend to lie to his best friend. She couldn’t help that she had fallen in love with him. And that was sort of seen as one of the biggest betrayals amongst friends. Falling in love with your best friends significant other, never really ended well. Dani jumped as the door to her trailer was thrown open, definitely not the way Jake would have entered. “ Oh my god, La-“ she started off before he started yelling at her. Actually yelling. The entire time she’d known him, even when they were dating, he had never actually raised his voice at her. And here he was, fuming. ‘ What the bloody hell, Dani?” he yelled, before he slammed the door shut. ” Nine months you kept this from me? Nine months. I ASKED you NUMEROUS times whether or not my suspicions were correct. Not only was I right, but it was with my best bloody friend? What the hell were you thinking? Were you not? I can’t even believe how selfish you are being right now. Not just with me, but with him as well. What you did, and I know it was your idea Dani, is not fair to either of us,”. Dani felt her jaw open a little and she stepped back away from Lance as she tried to collect her thoughts.

Realizing that Jake had told Lance about their relationship wasn’t something she had planned until the show was over. But apparently Jake had let his friendship with Lance be more important than the show. Damn that boy and his stupid morals. “ Do not come in here and yell at me like that when you don’t even have my side of things!” she yelled back at him, raising her voice to reach Lance’s. If he wanted to yell about it, fine. He wouldn’t be the only one. “ No le grite a mi cuando estaba tratando de proteger!” she yelled, seeing the frustration in Lance as she yelled at him in spanish. ‘ DON’T YELL AT ME IN SPANISH!” he yelled back at her, his fists still clenched from whatever encounter he had with Jake. Dani narrowed her eyebrows as she watched him. “ Tell me why you’re so mad about this. You’re happy and with Kiersten. And you are in LOVE with her. WHY do he and I not deserve that too?” she yelled at him, finding herself more and more frustrated that he was making an issue out of it.

[Lance James Renner]

Lance could still feel his hands shaking from anger, even though they were clenched tightly into the shape of fists. “ Are you kidding me, Cooper?” he bellowed at her. “ You can’t be that naïve. I never said that neither of you didn’t deserve it. But I sure as hell deserve a lot more from two people that claim to be my best friends. Do you have ANY idea what you’ve done? Do you? I don’t care that you broke up with me. I stopped caring about that a long time ago. I talked to him. For months. About the break up. About you. About how I didn’t understand. And he had to sit and go along with it. How long did you plan on leaving me for my best friend, Dani? How long did you let me take you out, fall for you at the time, before you FINALLY decided that you should let me go, and give my best friend a shot? And what about after we broke up? How quick was it before you jumped in the sack with him? Did you have a good time? The both of you? Laughing at what a fool you made of me? What about when all three of us would hang out near the end of our relationship? Was it already happening then?” he yelled at her, searching her eyes for whatever answers she would give him. But her eyes kept dropping to his fists, and in all honesty he knew he was probably scaring her. She’d never seen him this mad. He’d never been this mad, except for once. “ You are so lucky you found someone to love you after the bullshit you’ve done. You know, you two really deserve each other”. he said, shaking his head as he finally looked away from her.

‘ Look, I get that you’re upset. But you aren’t thinking about this from all perspectives’ Dani had said, seemingly starting to lower her guard from yelling before Lance looked back at her. ‘ Are you seriously willing to throw away two of your best friendships over this?”. Lance laughed at her, knowing nothing else to do with his anger. “ I’M the one who is throwing the relationships away? WHAT have I done that would cause any of that? I have been nothing but a good friend to the BOTH of you. If anyone is throwing away the friendships, its because of the choice you two made. I don’t care that you’re together, I care that you lied about it. And quite frankly, I think I’m handling this just about the way anyone would expect me to. I mean.. aside from the whole punching Jake thing. But I’m pretty sure what I’m going through is a hell of a lot worse than a punch to the face. Which was well deserved,” he yelled back at her, though he could tell by what he had just said any form of pleasantries she had just been trying to create were now out the window.

[Dani Marie Cooper]

To be fair, what they had done to Lance hadn’t been fair but the moment she heard him say that he had punched Jake something inside of her completely quit caring as to what Lance’s feelings were. “ You did WHAT?” she yelled at him. She brought her finger up, pointing it at Lance as she approached him, yelling at him in Spanish until she had pushed him into the wall and shoved her finger against his chest. “ I don’t know what you’re saying!” he yelled back at her, standing against the wall. Dani took in a deep breath, trying to calm herself but still found her arm reaching back, winding up before her hand struck Lance across the cheek. “ Yo comprende?” she asked, before she pushed him out of the way of the door of her trailer and left hers quickly. Dani walked quickly, almost running, on her path to Jake’s trailer. As the actor that played her younger brother caught up with her, asking her what was going on, she put her hand up. “ Not right now,” she said,stopping by the lunch table and grabbed some ice from the cooler for their drinks before wrapping a towel around it and running over to Jake’s trailer, walking up the steps to Jake’s trailer quickly and opening the door. “ Jake!” she yelled at him. Half of her was so pissed at him for telling Lance, the other half couldn’t believe that he had been punched and just wanted to take care of him.
“ How COULD you?” she yelled at him as she walked over to where he was sitting, knowing he would know what she was talking about. “ Do you even have any clue as to what hurricane just came into my trailer?” she asked, taking Jake’s chin in her hand and trying to turn his face so she could see where Lance had punched him. “ Then he’s yelling at me… basically saying that I was in love with you when I was dating him. Which to be fair… accurate…” she said, placing the ice against Jake’s face gently. “ You could have warned me. Sent a text message. ‘ Hey babe, I’m about to fuck everything up”. But nooo. No warning. Just a pissed off British invasion” she said, trying to get a good look at Jake’s face. It wasn’t really his fault, it was more her fault than his own. But right now what they were going through was because Jake decided to open his damn mouth. Even if she was the one that had wanted him to shut it in the first place. “ I mean what were you thinking?... Were you?” she asked, looking down at Jake and shaking her head. “ I love you, but you are really dumb sometimes, Jake. Really dumb” she said before she looked over at the counter that had all of his hair product and make up that they needed before putting him on set. She sighed, wondering if she should put make up on him before they leave the trailer and so the producers wouldn’t start questioning things. But when she heard a knock at Jake’s trailer door she froze in place, holding the ice to his face before she turned back to look at him.

[Lance James Renner]

Lance felt the sting of Dani’s hand against his cheek and stood stunned in her trailer for a few moments. He took in a few deep breaths before he left the trailer, watching Dani run off to Jake’s trailer to presumably take care of him. He just couldn’t stop his mind from flooding with questions, couldn’t just turn it off. He grabbed a bottle of water from the cooler, talking to another one of the actors on the show to sort of kill a few minutes before he headed out, and focused his eyes on Jake’s trailer. Just seconds later he was tapping his knuckles against Jake’s door and then opened it slowly, stepping inside before he shut the door and looked at the two of them. He gave a small nod. Well there was certainly no denying it now. “ I want to know.. when this started. How many times did the three of us hang out… only to have you two spend the rest of the night together after I left for the evening? Jake when was it exactly that you looked at my girlfriend and decided you wanted her to be yours? And Dani? When did you first start having feelings for my best friend? Let’s not pretend that you two fell for each other after the break up. Because doing the math… just doesn’t add up. So when was the first time you two stabbed me in the back?” he questioned, looking at each of them.

Lance knew eventually he would have to leave them to be alone. As much as he wanted to hate each of them, he also understood that they loved each other. They had to, right? Nine month long relationship. Nine months of hiding everything, you didn’t do that unless you really cared about someone. Yeah, he felt betrayed but he still cared about them. They messed up, but that didn’t mean he didn’t want them happy. He just needed time to be mad. Moreso at Dani than Jake. He still felt like Jake had crossed a line in their friendship, but that was the one friendship of the two that he knew he didn’t really need to question. People messed up, he got that. And he could tell by the way Jake had spoken to him earlier that it had been eating at him for a while now. He was sure once the initial shock wore off of him he’d be able to actually come up to Jake, talk things out in a lot more calmer manner. But right now he just wanted answers, then he could leave them be.

[Jacob Daniel Russo]

Jake recoiled when Lance punched him, not surprised at all, but still. A punch was a punch. But again, he didn't blame him. And to be honest Jake couldn't really feel it. Maybe it was the adrenaline or something, and the ouch part would come later. He rubbed his face where Lance had punched him, not really feeling anything, and heard Lance say he was going to talk to Dani. Jake held his breath, ready to fricken punch him back if he even thought about calling her what he almost had, but he'd stopped himself. Jake sat down for a split second when Lance stormed out, and then got up to go to his own trailer. He didn't want to be here when Lance came back. But no sooner had he gotten there, he sat down. He didn't even know what he was supposed to be doing. Suddenly he realized what Lance had said, going to talk to Dani. Jake stood up moving to the door quickly, knowing that talk was more like a yelling match. He didn't know what he would say to make it better, but he was going to go and make sure Dani didn't get hurt. As soon as he opened the door though, Dani was in his face, walking into his trailer and pushing him to sit down. She was pissed at him now too. "I'm sorry!" he said exasperatedly, sitting down. As she took his chin in her hand, turning to look at his face, he scoffed at her, "Are you kidding, yeah I know what hurricane just stormed into your trailer, the same one that punched me in the fucking face." But he stopped talking, letting her turn his face and look at it, pushing her ice pack away for her just to bring it back up to his face. "I'm sorry, I couldn't lie to him anymore, it was driving me crazy," he said, casually trying to swat away her ice pack again, "Dani my face is fine." For the moment it was, as long as he still didn't feel it. He was starting to feel the tingely sensation but she didn't need to know that. "No Dani, I wasn't thinking." he said sarcastically, giving up trying to make her stop with the ice. It was no use. She was going to try to take care of him. He answered her more seriously now, "Of course I was thinking, I was thinking about my best friend and not wanting to lie to him any more. I just didn;t think he was going to punch me. Guess I deserved it though..." he trailed off, finally starting to feel the punch now that Dani was taking care of it and heard the knock on the door.

"Door's open," he called out, seeing Lance come in. Jake looked at Dani, probably neither of them knowing what to say. Probably best to let him say what he had come to say. Lance came in, asking his questions, and Jake decided to answer, sparing Dani the trouble of trying to give a good answer. "Look it just sort of happened, when you two were dating, I mean... I don't really know when... just that it was before you broke up." He looked at Dani for approval, and looked at Lance trying to see his reaction.

[Dani Marie Cooper]

Dani made a face each time Jake swatted her ice pack away. After the last time she dropped her hands in her lap and lifted her eyebrow at him. “ Done acting like a child?” she questioned before she waited a few moments and brought the ice pack back up to his face. She rolled her eyes as he said he was fine. She was upset about the Lance situation, but honestly she cared more about Jake and how he was feeling right now. They could get to the other stuff later. “ Really? It’s fine?” she said. “ Alright.” she dropped the ice to the side quickly before she smiled at him and leaned down, wrapping her hands over his jaw. “ I love you so much,… remember that..” she said before she leaned down to kiss him, moving her hands from his jaw to the sides of his face. She leaned back and placed her hands on her hips. “ Yeah I’m aware he punched you that’s why I came with ice. I slapped him when he told me,… blame my ancestors” she said, casting her anger off on her heritage. But when Lance came into the trailer she remained still, watching the interaction between Jake and Lance.

Dani took in a deep breath as Jake looked at her for confirmation, back up. “ You know what Lance. You want the truth?” she asked stepping away from Jake and towards Lance. “ Yes. It started when we were dating. Jake was very respectful and kept his feelings to himself until I cornered him. Then it was me, not him, who made the first move. We kissed once and it tore Jake apart and neither of us wanted to go any farther until you and I had separated. I’m sorry for the way things unfolded, but I’m not sorry for the end result. I love him more than anything in the entire world. I would literally give up everything just to make him happy. Everything. And it is not fair for you to come in here and start talking about what we have like it’s some trashy motel love affair. No we weren’t ‘shacking up’ right away. Things evolved. He is a good man, and I love him and he loves me. He makes me angry and makes me want to rip my hair out sometimes, but there is not one damn thing I would change about what we have. You’re allowed to be mad, but not at him. It killed him, every day.” Dani went back to pick the ice up for Jake, knowing he would have abandoned taking care of himself.

[Lance James Renner]

Lance watched as Jake sat against the couch, Dani moving around him, taking care of him, giving her speech to Lance, going back to taking care of Jake. Hindsight maybe it wasn’t a good idea to punch him. Lance had forgotten about the whole being nursed thing. But Jake had been honest with everything he’d asked him. Unlike Dani. Whom he asked repeatedly and was always lied to, until Jake decided to spill the beans. “ How do you two expect a relationship to last between two people who lied their way into one?” he asked, no longer raising his voice but just simply asking. He shook his head, giving a small sigh. He knew he’d forgive Jake. Eventually. He just needed time. And he did want to see both of them happy, and the way Dani was taking care of Jake right now… they sort of seemed happy. Even under the circumstances.
Finally Lance gave a small sigh, not seeing a need to be there anymore. Let them be alone. Let them talk. Whatever. He headed back out, holding his hand on the door handle. “ I won’t say anything to anyone..” he said , not looking back at either of them. “ But I really hope you two can trust each other. Because that’s about the only other person in the world that would be naïve enough to ever trust either of you again,”. Lance opened the door, letting it close behind him before he made his way down the steps and back to his trailer. He just wanted to see Logan right now. Talk to Kiersten on the phone, have a few beers, spend the night with Logan. He’d been in a similar situation before and chances were he’d have some helpful older brother advice for him.