In between songs, Alex and Kiara had walked towards the snack table, and Daniel had about snapped.
"Hey! Who the hell you think you are?" Daniel says to Alex storming over to them.
"Excuse me?" Alex asks side eyeing Kiara.
"You hit on my girl, just to do a 180 when you get caught and get with my best friend?" Daniel continues.
"I'm not anyone's 'girl' and you're making a fool of your self." Brooke says.
"And who the 'best friend' in question?" I ask Daniel. "Because it's surely not me, because I'm friends with the real Daniel, not whoever you are."
"Well you're nothing then a liar and a cheat," Daniel points directly at Brooke.
"Hey! Leave her alone! It isn't her fault you can't over yourself!" Kiara took a step forward.
"And you, are blind if you can't see the games he's been playing since he go here. And the games he's playing with you." Daniel then pointed at Kiara while multiple students began to take notice of the arguing going on between them.
"Games? He's the one playing games?" She asks. "You're the one thats mad at the world and you're taking it out on your girlfriend who's done nothing but try to help you!"
"Yeah, you can let me know when you see him hitting on another girl." Daniel takes a 'intimidating' step forward on his crutches. "And I can try not to say I told you so."
"Hey! Back up!" Alex defends Kiara before she could defend herself. Daniel didn't say anything. He just glared between the two of them, before he grabbed some kind of pie from the snack table. Alex and Kiara ducking out of the way just in time before the pie flew past them hitting the wall. Daniel wiped for snacks off the table before snapping around to Brooke.
"You and me? We're done." He snaps.
"Oh you took the words right out of my mouth." Brooke says back. Daniel didn't waste a second before grabbing his crutches from the floor and storming towards the door.
"Way to go man, that was classic." Leo laughs. Everyone at the now silent dance glared at him, slowly reach for a cake on the table that Daniel hadn't wiped to the floor. Hayley gave her brother a look saying 'don't do it' while Kiara was giving the head nod and the look saying 'do it'. He wacked the cake right across his face saying,
"Now thats classic."
"What the bloody hell is going-" Aspen was cut off by Jackie, who shoved another cake in her face. Then looking around with an innocent smile.
"That was awesome." Kiara quietly laughs to her date as Sophie ran to the center of everything.
"Everybody calm down! I command you to stop!" She yells in her captain voice.
"Hey Ladies!" Parker calls before dumping the fruit punch over Jackie and Hayley. That insinuated the full blown food fight.
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"My mom is going to absolutely kill me if she sees cake on this dress." Kiara laughs walking up the stairs towards the Eagles clubhouse with Alex after most people at the dance had gone to bed. "Hopefully water gets it off or I am dead."
"You should join a softball team with that throwing arm you have." Alex says, "You nailed Leo in the face like five times!"
"Hey at that point Hayley wasn't going to stop me from getting some form revenge." She shrugs. "You know, I don't know your sister like I know you, but if anybody does what Leo did, let's just say revenge is justified."
"Other than Daniel basically exploding, tonight was really fun."
"Yeah but, I'm still worried about Brooke." She shrugs. "I guess the whole, food fight thing gave her a little something to think about other than her boyfriend breaking up with her in front of the whole school."
"I think it was more of a mutual agreement." Alex opens the clubhouse door.
"Yeah, I guess it kinda was." She smiles. "Still, I hope she's okay."
"One things for sure, practice is going to be weird when Daniel gets back." Alex says.
"Oh for sure, look out you might be the next one in a boot." She teases.
"I wouldn't put it past him honestly." He says while Kiara got a notification on her Louie.
"Oh, oh okay, hey I gotta run." She says reading the message.
"Is it Brooke?" He asks.
"No I just need to go talk to someone for a second. I'll see you tomorrow?" She walks back towards the door
"Whoa, whoa, wait you want me to come with you?" He follows her.
"No, I should go by myself. Don't worry it's not far." She shrugs him off. "Just down stairs."
"Well you want me to wait for you to get back?" He asks.
"You don't gotta, it'll just be a few minutes. Thanks for tonight, I had fun. See you tomorrow?" And with that she was out the door.
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"Hey Sophie." Alex sits down with Sophie at a table in the clubhouse the next morning. "You seen Kia?"
"No I thought she was with you?" She shrugs.
"Well I was going to meet her the gym this morning, but she wasn't there." Alex says, "Last time she didn't show up she and Brooke almost got attacked by a crazy person."
"Well, Brookes over there." Sophie points across the room. "I haven't seen Kia all morning though. Whatever is going on it's not you, if thats what you're getting at. Kia had so much fun with you last night I just know it."
"It's not- I mean it is that. I want to make sure she's okay before I worry if I'm the problem or not." Alex says while Brooke slides into a chair at their table.
"Hey have you guys talked to Kia this morning?" She asks.
"No, have you seen her though?" Sophie questions, Brooke just nods her head.
"Yeah I saw her but she was acting, weird." Brooke answers.
"Weird how?" Alex asks.
"She was eating breakfast alone, I was surprised she wasn't with you Alex, but I was going to go sit with her, she looked kinda down, but then Daniel and his mom walked in and she got up an left."
"Okay now I'm worried to." Sophie sighs. "I mean I don't think everything that happened before the food fight would knock her down that much."
"Yeah I don't think it was that either. She was really concerned about you Brooke before she ran off." Alex agrees with her.
"She ran off?" Brook asks.
"Yeah, Kia and I walked back up here after last night, and we were going to head to bed, but she got a message on her Louie and ran out, I offered to go with her but she insisted she'd be fine on her own."
"She didn't say where she was going?" Sophie asks.
"No, she literally ran out the door before I could ask." Alex answers. "Now I really wish I had gone with her. I'm going to go looking for her."
"No it's okay, I'll go. She is one of my Eagles after all." Sophies says getting up and leaving Alex and Brooke.
"I'm really sorry about you and Daniel." Alex says. "I feel like it was all my fault."
"Don't blame yourself. Daniel and I had been growing apart long before you came here. Same with Kia and Daniel."
"Really?" He asks.
"Yeah those two were as close if not closer than Parker and Daniel are now." She answers. "They both started to fight and disagree a lot more before you came here, and he's too stubborn and full of pride to take responsibility for his own actions, and I'm done cleaning up after his mess. I'm not his mother."
"His mother?"
"What about her?" She asks him.
"Daniels mother. I saw her last night." He turned and looked out the window.
"Where?"
"Right over there." He nods his head towards the window. "Towards the path that led down to where you and Kiara ran into the missing park ranger. I was with Hayley. We were so busy talking about that Aspen girl, I didn't think anything of it at first. But, yeah, we saw her there last night."
"Also in the same spot I saw Marcus disappear." Brooke adds.
"And, it was right before Kia disappeared from the dance. I mean she came back but she vanished with not warning or explanation, and Sophie said Kia ran out from breakfast after seeing Daniel and his mom." Alex says quietly, not allowing anyone else in the clubhouse to hear. "Do you think there's a connection?"
"Well, it all started when Daniel found the park rangers taser." Brooke reminds him.
"Okay, well... even if Judy was responsible for getting Daniel off the hook, It still doesn't explain why she was there, or anything that happened with Kia."
"Unless she knew about the park ranger the whole time." Brooke whispered.
"Wait what?"
"What if she's not protecting Daniel, what if she's protecting herself?" She suggests. "This has to be it."
"Should we tell your dad?" He asks.
"He adores Judy. He would never believe that she could do anything wrong." Brooke shook her head, "What about your dad?"
"He just got his job back. I can't drag him into this." Alex sighs. "But I do know who we can call. The FBI agent that was there after you and Kia saw the park ranger, Eric. He's my dads best friend, I know I can trust him."
"Yeah let's do it." Brooke nods. "And thank you for believing me."
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"Thank you for coming on such short notice." Alex says as he and Brooke sat down with Eric.
"Of course, you know you're like a son to me right?" Eric says. "It's a good thing you called, though."
"So what know?" Alex asks.
"First of all, does anyone else know about this situation." Eric asks while both teenagers shook their heads. "Good, you both have to be very discreet until we know more. Brooke would you mins coming with me to the station? We can take your deposition?"
"Sure, okay." She agrees.
"And maybe, we can make a quick stop before that. There's something I think you should see." He adds.
"I'll let you know if I hear anything from Kia, okay?" Alex says as Brooke stood to follow Eric.
"Sounds good."