Can This Work? Johnny X Jamie & Mike X Maddie

Chapter 12: Things Cleared Up

Jamie then went in the office to hear Johnny sing his song while playing the piano. She smiled at it, leaning against the doorframe just listening until he was done.

"Dang," she commented, making him jump a bit before turning to her, then she said, "You're really good."

"Thanks," Johnny blushed.

"You're welcome," Jamie replied, handing him his water.

They took sips of theirs when Nooshy came in.

"You should hear him when he's out in public," she commented, getting the two gorillas' attention.

"Hey, Nooshy," Johnny smiled as they fist-bumped.

"What's up?" she asked, looked at Jamie, then wondered, "Is this the singing, rapping dancer that you texted me about?"

"That's her. Nooshy, this is Jamie," Johnny said to her then returned, "Jamie, this is Nooshy. She helped me with my dancing when we went to Redshore."

"Nice to meet you," Jamie said, holding a hand out.

Now while Nooshy was suspicious of her, she acted like she wasn't as she took her hand.

"Nice to meet you too," Nooshy returned.

Then Miss Crawly came in frantically.

"Miss Crawly, what's going on?" Johnny wondered.

"Mike's back," Miss Crawly answered.

He then became angry while Jamie pretended to look confused.

'Maddie wants to do this now?' she thought.

"Is this the same Mike who was said to have told those bears about Rosita having his money?" Jamie asked.

"Yeah. He has the nerve to come here after that," Johnny muttered, put his water down, then left.

"Uh oh. Johnny doesn't usually get mad," Nooshy remarked.

"Then this isn't gonna end well if something isn't done," Jamie said.

They then followed him to see the rest of the group, glaring at the white mouse and Maddie was right by him.

"Mike, what are you doing back here? We haven't heard from you since our first show," Buster asked calmly, though the others could tell he wasn't very happy about this either.

"I'm back to make amends. So this girl here told me those bears I cheated out of their money was chasing Porky over there for my money I said she had. But that's not true," Mike answered.

"I don't know about this, you guys," Porsha stated.

"How can we trust what you're saying? If it weren't for Jamie, Rosita could have been seriously hurt," Johnny remarked.

Mike looked dumbfounded as he turned his attention then asked Maddie, "So that's the black belt friend of yours who took them out?"

"Yeah, that's her," Maddie nodded proudly.

"You know her?" Meena asked as everyone looked at Jamie.

"Yeah. This is Maddie. We grew up in Redshore and she's like the older sister I never had," Jamie said.

She signaled to Maddie to go with it and Maddie nodded slightly. Nooshy noticed both of these.

"I had to save him from those bears too because he already paid them back, but they claim he owes them $100,000," Maddie said.

"Guys, I've known Maddie my entire life and she's not one to make up something just for the heck of it, so Mike has to be telling the truth," Jamie added.