"I want one." Lydia declared with her hazel eyes hungry and determined, like those of a lioness on the prowl. The current target of her hunger, being none other than Beacon Hill's new resident heart throbbing bad boys, the hunk twins Ethan and Aiden Bishop. The twins walk proudly through halls of Beacon Hills High like royalty, and although they had just moved to town about a week ago they had a presence few could ignore.
Each twin was gorgeous, tall and muscular with broad shoulders and strong jaws. They looked like emissaries from heaven on high come to usher in a new wave of raging lust for all the women of Beacon Hills High.
Lydia licked her lips.
Danny rolled his eyes.
He had met his fair share of hot guys in his days and if there was one thing his seventeen years of experience had taught him about hot guys was that the better looking they are, the douchier they could be. His own best friend Jackson had been proof enough of that. Hell, so had his last boyfriend Joshua. Sure Jackson had his own issues and to be fair so did Josh but that didn't do much for all the people they had lied to and manipulated throughout the years. Sometimes even Danny himself. He seriously doubted these two twins would be any different. Still, if there was anyone who knew how to handle themselves around a douchey hot guy it would be Lydia Martin. Ethan and Aiden might be the new princes of Beacon Hills, but Lydia was the reigning queen.
Which seemed to make Danny the court jester as he was currently holding all of Lydia's books while she applied makeup in her locker mirror.
"So Lydia which one do you want? Ethan or Aiden?"
"Did I say one? Why not both? Double the fun Double the-"
"Risk of STDs?" He finished, cutting her off. "C'mon Lydia I know you're upset about Jackson leaving for London. I am too, okay. But I don't think drowning your sorrows in freshman D is gonna fix anything."
"As I seem to recall that is exactly what you did when you and Josh broke up last year. You were at the Jungle every night trying to scoop up one banana boy after the other. You could have opened a Jamba juice with all the fruit passing through your room."
"Okay fair enough." Danny half heartedly agreed. "Still the guys I went after didn't go here and they most certainly did not look like they had a cameo in the movie Grease. I mean who wears that much leather? It's obnoxious. They're like the second coming of Derek Hale."
Lydia paused in her application of mascara to shoot Danny an annoyed look. "Then I say let them come."
"Yeah but-"
"Please Danny give them some credit they are not nearly as catatonic and brooding as Derek. If they were, would I be working on a plan to get one for myself…and one for you too if you're good."
Danny balked. She couldn't possibly mean….
"Wait, whaaa?"
"Yep."
"How is that even possible? It's like the second day of school?!"
"A good reporter never reveals her sources."
"Meaning?"
"Meaning that I have my ways….you of all people should know that."
Danny simply stared at her like the freakish cross between Audrey Hepburn and Albert Einstein that she was, before leaning his head back against a locker and scowling. If this news had come from anyone other than Lydia, he might have just rolled his eyes and forgotten the whole thing. People seemed to have a habit of thinking everyone was gay when they weren't, and Danny had learned the hard way not to put too much stock in idle gossip.
However, Lydia's gaydar was eerily accurate more like a homing device than a radar. In fact Jackson had told him that Lydia knew he was gay the moment he introduced them. Which Danny had found pretty damn impressive (though slightly scary) considering how loosely he conformed to the stereotype of the flamboyant gay man.
"Ok. Ok." Danny began. God I am going to regret this. He thought. "Let's say one of them is gay…."
"He is."
"Fine. What makes you think I have a shot with him? In case you haven't noticed with your otherworldly teen witch senses the Bishops are attracting every living thing with a pulse. And I do mean everything. Just this morning I saw Scott McCall do a love at first sight double take when he saw them walk by. I swear he stared at them for like two whole minutes."
"Wait Scott did?" Lydia asked faltering in her application of her Candy Yum Yum lipstick for a brief moment.
"Yeah he did." Replied Danny thinking back to the incident this morning. The whole scenario had seemed kinda odd. The look on Scott's face hadn't been one of admiration but of...of what? Fear? Bewilderment?
Lydia's eyebrows were kneaded together , a look of deep concentration painted onto her usually carefree face. A face that was now staring off into the depths of her locker like the answer to eternal youth lay somewhere deep inside.
"Earth to Lydia. Come in Lydia….LYDIA!"
"Wha- huh? What is it? Why are you yelling at me?"
"Ummm because you were literally just staring off into space like the chick from That's So Raven does every time she gets a vision."
"Okay one, you are a total and utter dork for that reference. Two, Scott McCall is not gay. I've done my homework on that. Three, I know he would be into you because besides being the hottest member of the gay male gender at our school you are by far the nicest. Haven't you heard? Everybody likes Danny. In fact I'm beginning to think our school prides itself on it."
"Fine. Fine but how do you kn-"
DRRIIIINNNGGGG
The obnoxiously loud ring of the school's starting bell sounded off, signaling the beginning of all first period classes. Lockers slammed shut one by one and students moved in zombie horde like formations to their respective classes.
"Because Danny I'm a people person." And like the model she was, Lydia closed her locker door, turned on her Louis Vuitton high heels, and glided to class as if the hall was her own personal runway.
That girl is a piece of work. Danny thought shaking his head. As he turned the corner to head to his next class he smacked straight into a brick wall. Or at least the human flesh equivalent of a brick wall.
"Sorry about that man." This from a charmingly deep voice which aptly belonged to an even more charming and handsome face. One that had been the topic of much of Danny's morning conversation.
"I wasn't watching where I was going. You alright?"
"Y-yeah I mean good better than good. I-uh totally wasn't watching the hallways. You had the right of way."
The guy smiled wider and Danny thought for sure he was about to be blinded by the sure whiteness of this guy's teeth. No way were they real.
"Hey. Ethan Bishop. I'm new here." Ethan extended a hand which Danny took clumsily.
"Hi my names Manny. I mean Danny! Like with a D." Danny smiled but on the inside he was mentally smacking himself. Yeah D as in Duh you freakin moron of course Danny begins with a D!
"Nice to meet you Danny. Hey you wouldn't happen to know where room 113 is? I just transferred into this Shop Class with Mr. Malone and I don't wanna be late on my second day."
"Yeah I do actually. It's straight down the end of this hall, last door on your left. I had that class last year. Malone is a total hard ass so you don't want to be late."
"Is that so? Well luckily I've handled my fair share of ass in the past so I should be ok."
Danny laughed. Was that a flirtatious remark? Danny was nowhere near as naïve as some of his classmates but even he couldn't tell what was up with this guy.
"Well I better go…see ya around sometime…Danny with a D." Ethan winked and walked off leaving a highly befuddled Danny alone in the hallway.
…
Two hours later and Danny still couldn't get the gorgeous blue eyes and strong firm hands of Ethan Bishop out of his head. It was third period and thankfully lunch was just around the corner. All Danny had to do was get through this class, Physics. Luckily it was still only the second day of school and the material had been pretty light so far. His teacher was busy writing some weird looking theorem on the board while his classmates were all chatting excitedly about their exploits during summer vacation.
Danny for his part had chosen a seat near the wall away from most of the chatter. He didn't know if it was because his best friend was currently in another country or whether it had something to do with his weird run in with boy gorgeous that morning but he was feeling strangely reserved. Maybe he'd just take a nap this period….
It's not like I'm really going to miss anything.
At that exact moment the door swung open and in walked none other than the stars of his fervid daydreams. Well at least one of them was. In perfect unison they sidled up to Mrs. Tremay and presented her with their schedules which she barely glanced at. She was too busy giving both boys the biggest smile Danny had ever seen on a high school teacher, which of course the twins returned at double the power. After about ten seconds of maniacal smiling the twins began to slowly inch towards a seat when she stopped them.
"Well hold on boys before you take a seat seeing as how this is Physics, the basis of which is chemistry I think it would be appropriate to commemorate your introduction with a fun little experiment."
The class collectively held their breaths. They all knew that when it came to downright quirkiness Mrs. Tremay was the top dog among the teachers.
"Please boys, if you would, take a seat next to the girl that you find to be the…. cutest."
In an instant, the classroom falls completely silent. Danny can now literally hear the beating of his own heart. Where not just a moment ago the air had been filled with talking and laughter there was now nothing but tense anticipation. It felt more like the opening scene from the Hunger Games than first period. Though unlike the movie Danny was sure more than half the class would gladly volunteer in the wake of this new turn of events.
Aiden -or was it Ethan? Both boys wore matching leather outfits- is the first to break the silence stepping forward with a sly smile on his perfectly chiseled face. Dark eyes playful but precise. For any other student this experience on the first day of school would be mortifying or at the very least more than a little uncomfortable, but not for Aiden Bishop. He walks-No walks is the wrong word-Danny decides. More accurately he struts with the grace and confidence of a foreign prince. He is confident and sexy and worst of all he knows it. When he walks past a few of the girls in the first row it's like a death sentence. Their bright eager young faces so full of hope transform instantly into morose corpses of utter and total rejection.
It's almost like a virus Danny notes with each row he passes by girls faces all drop and deflate like sad empty dolls. Their chances of getting with the Adonis now gone. Aiden hath given hope and Aiden hath taken hope away. Although thankfully there were quite a few girls who seemed not to have noticed that Aiden had even walked by, let alone stepped into the room.
Danny for his part had been pretending to stare into his notes which he realizes is actually pretty stupid considering it's only the second day of school and he barely has three lines down on his paper. Looking up from his notes he sees the twin standing right in front of his desk.
Their eyes met and for a fraction of a second Danny thinks that maybe, just maybe there's something there. That Lydia's information was right. That this guy could really be into him. But then the guy smirks and continues walking, and suddenly Danny is left with his mouth hanging wide open staring into space like an idiot.
Thankfully no seems to have noticed. Their eyes ravenously following Aiden who has chosen to take a seat next to …..
"Lydia freakin Martin what a surprise." Rachel Rice mutters loud enough for everyone in class to hear.
For her part, Lydia doesn't look too thrilled. Hell, forget thrilled! She doesn't even look the least bit surprised. She offers Aiden a polite smile then simply licks her finger and flips to the next page in her physics book.
Danny can't believe it. Just this morning she had been working on a plan to snag a twin. Now she had had one practically gift wrapped and delivered into the palm of her hands. Man, whoever said life was fifty percent irony wasn't kidding.
"Interesting choice Mr. Bishop." Mrs. Tremay affirmed. "Now Ethan is it? Time to pick your poison. Which one of these lovely ladies will you choose?"
Danny's breath suddenly catches in his lungs. So that had been Aiden! Now it was do or die time. Who would Ethan choose?
Ethan stalks forward his gait almost identical to that of his brothers. The girls who had lost hope the first time now look up again with renewed interest. Some even unbuttoned their shirts and fixed their hair. Though Ethan doesn't seem to be paying them any attention, doesn't even look like he notices the room around him. His eyes fixed on one prize and one alone.
"Is this seat taken?" Ethan asks Danny, blue eyes flashing playfully.
"Err wha? Umm no, no have a shit. I mean a seat! Have a seat."
Which Ethan does right next to Danny so far away from the class that it feels like they're on their own little island. An island Danny hopes he is stranded on forever.
"You have got to be fu-!" Rachel begins but is cut off by Mrs. Tremay .
"Language! Thank you gentleman for playing along and welcome to Physics. Now class if you would open your books and turn to page 32 it's about time we get started. Those theorems aren't going to solve themselves you know."
The class lets out a collective groan, the impassioned mood now permanently extinguished. Which is funny, Danny thinks, because for the first time since schools has started he feels like a boy on fire.
What do you guys think? Worth continuing? The way things are now we're not exactly sure of Ethan's motives but it's obvious how he makes our boy Danny feel. If you liked the fic and want me to continue or have any ideas please leave a review!