A/N: I forgot to tell you about something to do with the plot, i made Danny a little older/more mature than Tom in this story, hope you don't mind. i know that in real life Tom is the oldest though. i didn't put their actual ages in, so it is up to the reader/you to decide.
Hopefully longer than the last chapter. Disclaimer: I anti-claim anything you think I own. Unfortunately I don't own any persons in this typing words thing i seem to be doing. as much as i would like to :(
P.S: I changed my username because my friend was about to search up and find this story to probably use as blackmail material. not much of a friend really. I used to be happyeverdisaster, if you're wondering. It's now banovice. (which is what Harry was telling Tom about in Memory Lane 2013 - On The Road part 3 i think. banana novice it means.) carry on~
Bobble Hats & Sleds - Chapter 2
The brightly coloured hat landed smack on a boy's face, much to Tom's dismay. Tom ran up to the shaking boy, panic stricken.
"I'm so sorry! My hat flew off my head and... I'm sorry!" Tom stammered, forgetting that the boy couldn't see his embarrassed face. But fortunately, it didn't take long for Tom to realize that the boy was trembling - with laughter.
Tom recovered from the initial state of shock and presented a lopsided smile as he pulled his hat off, revealing the boy's face.
Tom immediately noticed the boy's bright blue eyes. They reminded him of the blue Thomas The Tank Engine rug his aunt bought him for his birthday. The boy had dark, brown hair peeking out from his very own bobble hat, twisted into a curly fashion. "It's okay. My mum calls me Daniel, but you can call me Danny!".
Tom smiled even wider at Danny's cheery attitude. "I'm Tom.". "Well, Tom, here's your hat!" Danny giggled, snatching the hat from Tom's mitten covered hands. He held it out, admiring it, eventually saying "Our hats match!". Tom looked up at Danny's coincidentally blue and red striped bobble hat. Indeed did they match. "Maybe we got them from the same store. My mum picked out mine." "Mine too!".
Danny looked blankly at the hat for a little while longer before Tom interrupted the silence. "Can I get my hat back now?" He asked, pointing at the blue and green article of clothing, still being held by Danny.
A cheeky grin erupted on Danny's previously unresponsive face. "Okay..." He slowly put the hat back on Tom's head, then proceeded to pull down on it. Hard. Enough for the hat to cover about half of Tom's face.
Danny instantly ran off, a hand covering his grinning mouth, trying to stop the chorus of laughter to flare up into a full out giggling fit.
"Hey!" Tom shouted, his eyes still covered by the damp hat, pulled over his eyes and halfway over his nose. He stumbled around slightly, resembling Winnie The Pooh before pulling up the frizzy material to his forehead, allowing his eyes to function again.
"I'm going to get you Danny!" Tom ran around aimlessly, trying to regain all his knowledge about the area and formulate a really clever plan to do something funny to Danny, like in the countless online videos he saw his older cousins watch during family reunions.
But the classic giggles of Danny's ruffling behind the suspicious looking pile of snow and moss gave his location away to Tom there and then. Tom was pretty sure in the span of time he's gotten to know him, Danny laughs more than he speaks.
Tom ran up to a nearby bush, then another, and another, making lengthy stops between bushes, trying to be as stealthy as possible, approaching the unsuspecting Danny. Danny's fits of after-funny-event laughter was soon replaced by surprised yells once he had noticed Tom launching his heavily winter gear clothed body towards his.
Tom charged full speed ahead, tackling Danny towards the soft white ground. He flipped Danny's body to face his, covering his mouth with his hand before he could utter a single word.
Using his other hand, Tom pulled the edge of Danny's very own hat down to the slope of his freckly nose, before removing his hand from his mouth. "There, now you know how I feel." Tom remarked, sitting back as Danny sat up inches away from him, then using one hand lifting the fabric up a little, giving Tom the most doe eyed, adorable, innocent look.
"Okay okay I'm sorry Danny!" Tom suddenly trembled, grabbing unaware Danny into his arms; Danny still shocked as Tom buried his face into the shoulder of his clammy jacket that his nan gave him last christmas. Danny placed a caring hand on Tom's shaky back, still not even able to comprehend what had just happened. "Tom, it was a joke, calm down. Please Tommy, don't be upset now." Danny whispered, rubbing Tom's back soothingly.
crap i didn't intentionally make it that sad, so sorry. but if you do like that kinda stuff, i take back what i said earlier. just experimenting. i promise there will be more happiness in the next chapter and sleds shall be incorporated more as it is in the title of the story (hinthint). yeah so Danny is in the story now, i'm really fond of his laugh so that will explain the many times he laughs in the story. and i imagine he can pull a very convincing innocent face too.
oh, here's a note! i also have a AO3 account under the username banovice, and i usually post chapters earlier over there than on since you can upload it immedietly over there, instead of having to wait before it posts. so if any of you are interested in reading this early (which i doubt you are), go take a lookie over there.
feel free to leave comments or ideas that i might include in the story. you the readers can help sculpt and shape the story. yeah, that has a nice ring to it.