Dale starts preparing breakfast before leaving for his first day of school. He’s much calmer with the news Terence gave him, and has already sent him a thank you message. But there’s still one problem: Kelly will surely ask what he was going to say about Terry the night before when he went suddenly quiet.  She will ask because Kelly is curious like that, and then what is he going to tell her?

Something like, “Terry doesn’t hate you, in fact you were his crush since he was a kid. He probably still has feelings for you, but he’ll never admit it because he’s a proud fool who would rather tie himself to a concrete block and throw himself into the swamps of Twinbrook than to admit it, and because he knows damned well you’d never date someone like him”?

He can’t tell Kelly such thing.

Neither can he tell her that he started dating her to get back at Terry for stealing Cynthia from him. Even though he now thinks, frankly, that Terry and Cyn are a match made in heaven, especially because of their respective ‘professions’, and that, at the end of the day, he was the one who came out on top by winning Kelly’s heart.

But no, Kelly is not ready for this conversation yet. Maybe someday he’ll tell her the whole story, but if he does now all it will do is make her hate Terry and Cyn even more.

And Terry would surely kill him if he found out he broke his promise to keep this embarrassing secret. So, for everyone’s sake, especially Kelly’s, she must continue to ignore the story. A story that belongs only to the brothers and must remain within the walls of the Cho household forever.

Oh, by the way, someone else in the family used to make excuses to go to the fire station, that was Tyron of course. Only he wouldn´t go to see Kelly, but Candice, and unlike Terence, in the end he did win the love of his damsel’s and married her.

Although, everybody knows that now Candice divides her ‘attention’ between Tyron and his co-worker, Jasper Goth.

Why do the Cho brothers have such bad luck with women? Why have all their girls cheated on them at some point? Is it really 'bad luck’ or do they just get what is coming to them?

Okay, not all the Cho’s girls have been unfaithful, Kelly hasn’t cheated on Dale… yet.

And Dale hopes that never happens, because now he’s so in love with her, that he couldn’t stand it. Plus, he honestly doesn’t know what he’d be capable of if Kelly betrayed him like Cynthia.

Dale (to himself): Nah, that’s never gonna happen. Kelly is nothing like Cynthia.

In short, what you don’t know can’t hurt, so, Dale has decided it, Kelly will never know that she was once Terry’s crush.  Sure she’ll insist on knowing what he was going to say last night though, but he promised Terry he’d take that secret to his grave, and he intends to keep that promise.

Thankfully he has something to distract Kelly with: the news of the discount that Terry got for them - now that’s news worth telling! Not to mention how much fun it will be for her to see Riley’s face when she tells her he’s not going with her to the stupid gala, and that it was G.W. Woods himself who offered the 70% off.

Dale (again to himself): Well, Riley, you’d better start looking for someone else to take with you to that stupid event.