It was morning. 

Peacemaker took Gracie and Jamie over to his dad's house with Eagly accompanying them as well to find his shield to fight against Randy. 

Jamie wore her usual white shirt, "NIKE" sweatpants, and white shoes. 

Gracie wore a black spaghetti tank top with a black and pink jacket tied just around her waist, her glasses, Purple-blue-cyan Tye-dye sweatpants, medium long purple fuzzy socks, and her rainbow slip on flipflops. 

"Here? It might be here?" Gracie asked curiously. 

Peacemaker nodded excitedly as Jamie giggled to herself, making Gracie playfully glare at her like any sibling would do. 

"Hey, gang!" An excited voice called out to the four friends. 

Peacemaker, Gracie, and Jamie turned to see Leota and Emilia. 

Leota wore the same outfit from last night as Emilia wore a black tank top, gray yoga leggings, gray socks, and neon running shoes. 

Gracie glanced at Emilia's outfit and blushes in embarrassment. 

The brunette untied her jack from her waist, puts it on, zips the jacket up, and hugs her curvy figure gently as Leota gave her a worried look. 

"Here's the plan, Jamie, Emilia, and I will look in the garage while Leota and Gracie look in the rooms in my dad's house." Peacemaker said eager to find his shield already. 

Leota, Jamie, and Emilia nodded in agreement. 

Eagly cawed an "Okay" as Gracie mumbled under her breath quietly. 

Leota and Gracie walk towards the rooms with Eagly waddling himself right behind the two women into the house where the rooms were at. 

Gracie looked to be not even trying to look for Peacemaker's shield as Leota looked high and low under furniture and whatever else. 

"'Oh, I'm Emilia and I love to get the attention of any guy around me.' Ugh, give me an effing break, girlfriend!" Gracie said unamused at Emilia showing up in her jogging outfit. 

Leota's eyebrows furrowed together into a frown. 

"Gracie, it's cool. Emilia never had the intention to wear that outfit today. She just went for a jog when Peacemaker had her and me come over here to help Peacemaker's shield. Is something going on that I should know about right." Leota asked after stating out why she and Emilia were there helping out. 

(Author's Note: I will let everyone know that I will use Author's Notes to let people know before the mature stuff happens or at the beginning of the chapters and I will also put when the mature stuff is just about over. Now, on with this for the chapter since half of this chapter will involve body image!) 

Gracie sighed in and out deeply as her body shook as a refrainment from crying. 

"The reason why I am acting this way is because I am self-conscious on how I look with my body. Wonder why Peacemaker fell in love with me when he could be with someone like Emilia! I was rejected by two guys in the fifth grade and had a few crushes in middle school and high school, but was scared to say anything." Gracie said with tears streaming down her face. 

Leota was shocked at what Gracie was personally spilling out for her rant.

She didn't know that Gracie was feeling like this. 

The older brunette knew Peacemaker loved Gracie on how she was and her personality was so bubbly and amazing. 

"And it's hard enough that any guy at Anna's bar starting to admire me that I had to forget my past at my own home." Gracie said through sobs, making her body shake from the sobs. 

Leota sighed at the sight of Gracie and hugs her instantly. 

Gracie started to cry even more as she started to make incoherent words and sentences. 

(Author's Note: That is all I have for it. If there are any ideas you want to comment, let me know in case if I run out of ideas.) 

Eagly started to caw to get Gracie and Leota's attention. 

The two women looked at the eagle with confused looks on their faces. 

As Eagly waddling himself right out of the room out to the hallway, Gracie and Leota followed him to another room with a shield hanging on the wall next to a vanity mirror. 

Both Gracie and Leota gasped in surprise at the shield. 

The shield had a silver rim in the shape of a crest, yellow on the right side, red on the left side, and a dove plastered on the front of it. 

It was Peacemaker's shield. 

Gracie dashed up to the shield and grabbed it off the wall. 

Leota and Gracie rushed out of the room with Eagly flying right behind them towards Peacemaker, Emilia, and Jamie. 

"Peacemaker, we found your-" Gracie said walking in with Leota, but is cut off at a sight she and Leota never expected to see. 

Peacemaker is seen having Emilia sitting on top of his broad shoulders to grab the stack of boxes on top of a metal cabinet while Jamie looked high and low in other places in the garage, not noticing the situation at hand at that moment. 

Emilia turned her head to see Gracie holding Peacemaker's shield. 

She gasps in shock and fell backwards, making Peacemaker fall back as well onto the hard cold floor of the garage. 

Peacemaker groans in pain from the impact of the fall, making Jamie turn around to see what happened and what was going on. 

He looks up to see Gracie holding his shield. 

The muscular stands up and helps Emilia up onto her feet. 

Peacemaker smiled happily. 

"Thank you for finding it, Gracie." Peacemaker said excitedly. 

He instantly gives Gracie a tight hug, wrapping his bulky arms around her curvy form. 

Gracie gently shoved Peacemaker back and gave him a fake smile. 

"It's no problem. I gotta go." Gracie said walking away with seriousness in her slightly shaky voice that almost broke into a cry. 

She hands Peacemaker his shield. 

The brunette walks in the direction of Anna's bar. 

Peacemaker looks at Jamie and Leota with a confused look on his face. 

"Is Gracie okay?" Peacemaker asked with confusion hinted in his voice. 

Jamie shrugged her shoulders and hummed a "I honestly don't know" out. 

Leota sighed and decided to tell Peacemaker everything Gracie had told her while finding his shield in his dad's house. 

"Gracie told me that she was feeling insecure about her body and thought that Emilia wore her jogging outfit to get your attention. Yet, no offense, Emilia." Leota stated. 

Emilia nodded to what Leota meant. 

"None taken." Emilia said not offended by what Gracie said. 

Peacemaker looked surprised that Gracie said that on what's been on her mind and he never even seen Emilia do that to him at all. 

The muscular man insistingly felt bad for let Gracie think that. 

He knew he had to apologize to her right away. 

At Anna's bar, Gracie is seen in a blue sparkly dress. 

(Author's Note: This is what the dress looks like.) 

She looks in the vanity mirror. 

The brunette attempts to do various fake smiles, but to no avail. 

A knock was heard on the door to the room Gracie was in. 

Gracie turns to see Anna opening and closing the door behind. 

Anna smiles supportingly to Gracie, who smiles slightly. 

"Oh, cheer up, Gracie honey. I'm sure it was an explanation for anything." Anna said smiling softy, petting Gracie's hair like how a mother would comfort her child. 

"Yeah, right." Gracie said with a sarcastic smile on her face. 

Anna gave Gracie a "Really?" look. 

Gracie sighed in defeat and looked back at the vanity mirror. 

The gray-haired woman hugged the brunette like how a mother would hug her child. 

She pats Gracie on the shoulder as if to say, "Let's forgive Peacemaker already" and walks out of room to let Gracie think for a moment. 

Gracie sighed deeply and goes to get on stage. 

Out in the drinking area, Peacemaker, Leota, Emilia, Adrian, and Jamie walk in and saw Gracie in a red fuzzy bathrobe wrapped around her small curvy body. 

She was talking to a group of men at a table near the stage. 

"Gracie!" Leota called out to the brunette. 

The brunette looked up to see the five friends with a surprised look. 

She looks back at the group of men, motioning to them that she would talk to them the next time she saw them at the bar. 

Gracie walks up to Peacemaker, Leota, Emilia, Adrian, and Jamie with her eyebrows raised up and wanted to know what was going on. 

"This is one of your tantrums again, isn't it?" Adrian spoke up with a smug smirk on his face, making Gracie roll her eyes at him. 

"I don't know, Mr. Suck Up. There's an awful lot of things that are believed to be one of my 'tantrums'." Gracie said walking back towards the stage to perform a song. 

Peacemaker follows suit with a worried and sad mixed look on his face. 

"Gracie, please, I'm sorry. Just please listen to me and Emilia." Peacemaker whined like a child would as if to not get their way for something. 

The brunette smiles slightly as she walks onto the stage. 

Two men from the group of men Gracie was talking to came up on stage and pulled the red fuzzy robe a cross Gracie's body to only to reveal the straps to her dress. 

"Of course, you two only here to talk to me, but your talk with me can wait. It's show time. See if you can guess who this song is about." Gracie said seriously with a slight angry look. 

She transforms the red fuzzy bathrobe into a red fuzzy blanket. 

The men in the audience claps and cheers for Gracie. 

Peacemaker looked worried about what was about to go down. 

Gracie turns to everyone in the bar. 

She takes the red fuzzy blanket off to reveal the blue sparkly dress she is wearing for the song. 

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[Gracie:] 

Oh ooh

Do I look like I need ya
I'm super deluxe, new improved
Better shape, better off
Stronger than I ever was

Whispers tell a lie
Starts a rumor makes your cry
It's out there poster size
It's no secret you're no prize 

Gracie turns to the curtains and gestures for them to open, revealing four back-up dancers wear almost identical dresses to Gracie's blue sparkly dress being worn by the brunette. 

The four back-up dancers started to follow the dance moves Gracie was dancing to the song. 

The brunette walks up to Peacemaker and points her right pointer finger to him, making the muscular man back up into an empty table. 

I'd never ever take you back
I'd walk on fire and broken glass
This is the time I'm here to stay
I never really liked you
I never really liked you anyway

No no never
No no never 

Gracie poses with her hands on her hips. 

The four back-up dancers started to dance in a circle around Gracie, who gives Peacemaker a serious "Boy, listen to what I am saying to you" look plastered on her face. 

[Gracie (Continued):] 

Just remember little man
The best I had are finally staying
Your so down I'm so up
Stronger than I ever was

I turn you on I turn your off
Let's get nothing I don't love?
You got nothing that I need
Loosing you has set me free yeah 

Gracie the walks up to Peacemaker, who is still has his back up against the empty table. 

The four back-up dancers started to dance in a circle around Gracie and Peacemaker at the empty table they were at. 

[Gracie (Back-Up Dancers):] 

I'd never ever take your back
I'd walk on fire and broken glass
This is the time I'm here to stay
I never really liked you
I never really liked you anyway

(You know you're not messing with me
No you're no you're not messing with me) (4X) 

Gracie then gently grabs Peacemaker by the collar of his tight-fitting red, blue, and white suit shirt as if to make him follow her. 

The brunette then starts to dance around Peacemaker, who started to blush a dark red color at what the woman he has a crush on was doing. 

[Gracie:] 

Get on out of no man's land
Gonna set your straight gotta understand
I'm the Queen B because
I'm stronger than I ever, stronger than I ever was 

[Back-Up Dancers:] 

You know you're not messing with me
No you're no you're not messing with me (4X) 

[Gracie (Back-Up Dancers):] 

I'd never ever take your back
I'd walk on fire and broken glass
This is the time I'm here to say
I never really liked you
I never really liked you anyway-ay-ay

Stronger
(stronger, stronger)
Stronger
(stronger, stronger)
Oh I'm so much stronger 

Graice then sits on the stage, dancing from side to side. 

Peacemaker looked at her. 

His light blue eyes met the brunette's brown eyes. 

I wasted a lot of years on this foolishness
Running behind you Peacemaker
(you're nothing, and I'm everything)
See you ain't nothing
And I'm everything
And I'm stronger than I ever was because I dropped you

Take that
I'm stronger
(stronger)
Stronger, stronger

Stronger than I ever was 

(End) 

Gracie poses as she sits on the stage. 

The back-up dancers pose standing up behind Gracie on the stage. 

Peacemaker looks at Gracie with admiration as everyone cheered loudly at the performance. 

Emilia smirked knowingly at Peacemaker that he truly did love Gracie. 

The brunette looks over at Peacemaker with pursed lips. 

The muscular man walks up to Gracie, who gives him a confused look. 

He kisses her on the lips, making her shocked at the sudden action. 

Gracie slowly kisses Peacemaker back, making everyone cheer even louder towards the kissing duo kissing each other. 

Outside of the bar stood Randy looking at Gracie. 

He seemed to be entranced by Gracie sometime after he got his hands on Anna's gem. 

As he watched Peacemaker and Gracie break the kiss, they both smiled happily. 

Randy walks away after seeing the two being together unfold before him. 

The black-haired man knew he had to use his evil tricks from up his evil jacket sleeves. 

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