He had to admit it. He was in a great mood. Richie has made his night. At first, he was so mad about the record... or more accurately the record's previous owner. While he still didn't want anything to do with his father, he was glad that Richie didn't feel that same pain. And he was proud that he was the reason for it. He kept replaying the moment where Richie said "I did have a dad," "You raised me Danny."
So yeah... he was in a great mood. Somehow they had repaired the vinyl so that it produced sounds resembling music and someone, probably Morgan, had suggested to limbo in the living room, and he didn't mind any of it. In fact, he was enjoying it. He'd come a long way from the guy who was afraid of buffalo chicken wings and their staining powers. Maybe it was the fact that he'd discovered he could remove the stains with baby powder and detergent or maybe he was growing. He liked to think it was the latter.
As he stood back admiring the young man he'd raised who, by the way, knows how to limbo, a familiar face came into view. Mindy.
"Hey, you made it! How was the wedding?" he said with a grin.
"Eh, I got laid," replied Peter who looked listlessly at his pizza.
Mindy cheerfully piped up "I ruined it."
"Sounds about right," he said cheekily, waiting for her reaction. Mindy always had some silly retort, but this time all she said was "Okay," with a little tilt of her head, dismissing the topic. "Okayyy," he said as he took a swig of his beer, not wanting to look away until she did.
There was something about the exchange. It was so simple, so unlike any of their usual bickering, so... he couldn't put his finger on it. Was it just his mood? Surely, he was just riding the high of a great night with his little brother in town. But as the night wore on, he found himself admiring Mindy more than his own handiwork. Somehow she managed to limbo, while eating her pizza and looking cute all at once. Boy, was he in trouble.
It had started for a couple of weeks ago, when they pretended to be a couple to keep his crazy neighbor pacified. It was like all at once, he noticed her. So naturally he'd been avoiding her a bit and that seemed to fix things. Less Mindy time = less Mindy infatuation. That's why the wedding had been "Perfect timing." But here she was... and she was being infatuating again, which just means she was just being herself . He was screwed. 100% screwed. Suddenly his great mood dissolved. He became pensive Danny. What was he going to do about this? Fortunately that's when Richie popped over to drag him to the limbo line and his problems were forgotten, for the time being.