A/N: well guys here I am again, typing up another story…I hope you all like it. It's a Danny Jr. thing, really. I'm putting some romance in there, but I'll try not to make it too cliché. Well, he's 17 during the whole thing (discounting of course his memories…age is as noted!), and he knows about Danny Sr. and he always has. It's following the premise of Stuck In A Moment, my other story. Okie doke? Please tell me if you like it by reviewing it, and whether or not you want me to continue it…thanks a bunch J love, axlette
Disclaimer: Anything that you don't recognize from the movie is miiine
Forever Young
…Tell me. That's all she said…Tell me. She was beautiful, everything that made up my world. Since we were little, I had told her everything I ever felt, longed for, or needed and she had always understood. But now…now was different. We sat there on the hill watching the sun set behind the trees and I closed my eyes to remember a time more far away…a simpler time…
"Come on, get up Danny boy," Rafe cooed at his 11-year-old son, trying to rouse him from his bed.
"Hmmm?" Danny mumbled from under his covers.
"Time to get up, the sun's risin'. Gotta get some work done on that duster."
He stuck his tiny head above the blanket and looked at his father. Rafe was tall and muscular, with a tanned complexion and gold-tinted brown hair. His eyes were big and hazel and strong, but they were also sad. Danny knew why.
"I'll be out in five minutes," he yawned, watching Rafe saunter out of the room.
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The sun shone bright on Danny's dark, wispy hair as he carried the toolbox to the barn where his dad was working. As he walked towards the big red building, he saw a woman and a child wandering toward their house.
"Pa?" he called inside the barn, putting down the toolbox inside the door. "There's some folks here to see ya."
"Did you see who it was?" Rafe called out.
"Nah, just some lady and her daughter I guess."
Rafe stood up from under the plane and wiped the sweat off of his brow with his forearm.
"You stay here and keep workin' on that thing, got it?"
"Yea, pa. I got it." Danny smiled as Rafe patted him on the shoulder and walked outside.
Tinkering around in airplanes was the one thing he truly loved, besides his parents. He had developed his father's knack for flying early on, and loved taking the old crop duster up, especially in the early evening. He loved the way the sky looked as the sun turned it orange and pink and purple, just before it disappeared behind the horizon.
"Danny?" Rafe called from outside. "Come on out here."
He put down his wrench and stepped out onto the grass. His dad was talking to a short, chubby woman in a big straw hat. Next to her stood a girl who looked his age, with long, light brown hair and bright brown eyes. She was his height, a scrawny little thing with tiny tanned limbs. Her mother had her dressed in a light sundress.
"What, pa?" Danny asked wearily. He knew what was coming next.
"Well there, Danny boy, "Rafe began, putting his arm around his son's shoulders. "This little beauty here is Janie MacCourt. She's the same age as you, and she and her mama and papa just moved in down the road. So Mrs. MacCourt and I were thinkin' that maybe you could give her a little tour, show her the ropes. Eh?"
Danny shrugged, feeling contempt at having to show some prissylittle girl around his turf.
"Fine," he muttered, grabbing the girl by the arm and taking her back toward the fields.
"Where are we goin'?" she asked quietly as they walked away from their parents.
"I'm gonna show you the ropes, remember?" he sneered.
"You don't have to be so rude, ya know."
"I don't care, I'll do what I wanna do. I'm gonna show you the creek."
He began to ran toward the woods, not caring much if she caught up before he got there or not. She was just a stupid girl, and everyone knows you can't have fun with stupid little prissy girls.
Janie chased him down into the woods and stopped only when she saw the "creek". It might as well have been a river for all she knew; it was wide and deep and sparkling under the tall trees.
"Wow," she breathed excitedly.
"Yea, wow. Not that you could ever fully appreciate the true value of a creek like th-…" Danny was cut short as she shoved him into the chilly water.
When he came back up she was on the ground laughing, tears rolling from her eyes as she gasped for breath. Slowly, he slunk over to the edge and yanked her leg, throwing her into the creek with him. When all was said and done, they were both laughing in the water, beating up on each other like old pals.
"I gotta say Janie," Danny confessed as he watched her climb up a tree branch to jump. "You're a lot neater than I thought you'd be."
"Oh, shut up," she laughed, leaping off and landing on him.
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"I want you to tell me," she said, leaning her head on my shoulder. "I want to be there for you."
But I can't tell her; what if she judges me? That's what the others did. And who are they to assume what they want to about my life? But I love her…she's different from them. I hope.
A/N: so…what do you all think? I'll be posting Chapter 2 later tonight. PLEASE review!