The Player Games (Dana Vaughns Love Story)

Chapter Fifteen

Dalton's eyes followed mine, and he purses his lips. "Who is that?" He asks, more to himself than to me. I feel my heartbeat a little fast, praying in my mind that he wasn't (fake?) cheating on me. The girl seemed mad at him, and she slapped him on his chest. Dana just looked angry at her, saying something.

Dalton stands up, and starts to make his way over there. I didn't know whether to follow him or not, so I just sat, playing with the hem of my muscle tee nervously. Dana turns around after Dalton says something and his eyes land on mine.

He heads towards me, after saying something to Dalton. I just sat, awkwardly, playing with my fingers. He sits down next to me, crossing his arms over his chest. "Why are you here with Dalton?" He questions, looking straight at me, with his jaw clenched. I chuckle humorlessly, rolling my eyes. "We were hanging out to get to know each other," I say, before placing my eyes on the girl who Dana had talked to. "Who is that?" "My mothers daughter," He said, keeping a straight face. "Who cares?" My eyebrows furrow. "Doesn't that make her your step sister?" He scoffs, "Hell no. I don't even see my mother as a mother."

I look at him sympathetically, though, I didn't really understand. "Why were you arguing?" I question, pursing my lips. "My mother wants me to come see her," I guessed they didn't have a good relationship. "What happened between you guys?" I ask, curiously. He just shakes his head, standing up. "Have fun on your date with Dalton," He says, suddenly. Instead of questioning his harsh change in character, my face drops. "For the last time Dana, I don't cheat, no matter how freaking jealous you get, nothing will be happening," I say, standing up, and I begin walking away. "But if that's what you think, then I guess I will." Angry with him, I stalk over to Dalton, and act like nothing happened.

"We should go to my house."

I laugh at Dalton's joke, covering my mouth to quiet my giggles. We were at Will's house at the moment, trying to prank him. We became friends from our little day together, and it has been really fun with Dalton. "Okay you go to the side, and I shall go to the other side," He whispers to me. I look at him confused, "Which side?" "You go right, I go left," I nod, understanding now, and getting ready to charge. Our plan was stupid but we were going to do it. It was to go through his windows to the living room, and then go upstairs to his room, because he is always in his room, and then put on masks, and act like monsters. It sounded stupid, but with Will, it would work.

I open the window, and slide through easily. I make a little clumsy land, and then turn back and shut the window, wiping my hands in success. I smile at myself before turning around. My smile drops, and eyes widen when I see Will and Amelia on the couch, staring at me, confused. Right then, Dalton drops in. "Abort! Abort!" I say, as he turns around, his victorious smile dropping too.

"Hey Will," He says, as he slides his mask behind his back. I do the same, smiling over at them, innocently. "Hi Will, hi Amelia," I say, walking over to them and sitting beside Will, on the mask. "We wanted to hang out." Dalton walks over and sits the way I did. "Yeah, it got a little boring since we had seen all the Doctor Who episodes," Dalton excuses, though we spent most of our time talking and not watching Matt Smith's adorable self going around in a timey wimey time machine. I nod along with him, as Will raises his eyebrows. "Why didn't you just use the door," He says, suspiciously. "We wanted to be James Bond," I say quickly, and Amelia giggles, and I smile. I stand up really quickly, the mask behind my back. "I'm going to your room to charge my phone," I say, and walk backwards until I reach the stairs. I run up, and make it to his bedroom, dropping the mask quickly on the floor, and making it out to bump into a body.

I look up to see Dana, and then I quickly wanted to get out. I hadn't talked to him in two days, because I was angry at him for thinking so low about me. I wasn't expecting to see him until tomorrow, which was school. I start to walk away, speed walking towards the stairs. His hand shoots out, though, stopping me, and pulling me towards him. I remain mad at him, as he pulls me into a tight hug, putting his chin on my head. "I'm sorry, Arizona," He mumbles, his voice vibrating on me. I immediately stop being mad at him, sighing, when I heard how sincere he sounded. "I was just jealous, and mad and I was being a dick." I push away from a bit, looking up at him. "Its alright," I say, also sincere. "I just want you to know fake relationship or not, I would not cheat." His beginning smile drops, and I wonder what I said wrong. He starts to mumble something, before smiling weakly at me.

"Can you come home with me?" He asks, taking my hand. "I missed you, a lot." "Wait," I say, surprised. "To your house?" He nods, a small smile that was really coming across his lips. This would be the first time I would even see his house, and I was surprised that he wanted me too. "Well, of course," I say, walking with him as he intertwines our hands together.

"Great," He says, smiling. "Because my dad really wants to meet you."

"And little Dana walked out the door, no clothing, snow and all," Danas dad said, and I laughed once again. We sat on Danas couch, that went around, and he was telling stories about Danas childhood. I turn to Dana still laughing, "He got sick, right?" I looked back to Danas dad, as he nodded, chuckling. "Of course," He says. "He was hospitalized for two days because of it." My eyes widen, and I giggle. "Nice job, Dana," I say to him, as he shakes his head, putting his arm comfortably around me. His dad was great, and like Dana, he was easy to talk to. And I think I already got the parent approval, first step of falling in love. I wasn't even ignoring the fact that I was, indeed falling for Dana, and I got to the point of not stopping myself. Dana's dads, phone rings, and he takes it out, frowning at the screen. He answers it, saying a few things, before standing up. "Speaking jobs, I need to go," He says, and smiles at me sadly. "You need to come here for dinner sometime, it was fantastic meeting you," I nod into agreement, shaking his hand. "I would love to," I say. He smiles down at Dana, nodding at him. "Dana talks about you so much," Dana stands up, "Okay you can go now, love you dad, have fun." He says, quickly, and I smile at him, amused. His dad turns to leave, waving a bit, and chuckling at his son.

Dana sighs, sitting down next to me, and puts him arm around me. I giggle at him, pecking his cheek, "I like your dad." He chuckles back, pecking my lips that time, pressing his forehead against mine. "He likes you," He says. The doorbell rings, making Dana shoot up, and I frown at the sudden movement. "Who could that be?" He asks himself, looking through his phone. He goes to the door, and I follow behind, curious.

He opens the door, and reveals his mothers daughter slash step sister.

(A/N I just want to say, I know Danas mom and him are close and things but this story isn't his life so yeah, okay.)