"Dougie! Dougie! Dougie!"
I opened my eyes. Danny was kneeling over me, shaking me.
"Hmm? Dan? What are you doing up?" Danny sighed and leaned back.
"Dude, you scared the shit out of me."
"What?"
I sat up and looked around. I was back in Danny's room. I stood up slowly and walked towards his bedroom door. I slowly put my hand on the door handle. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. I opened the door and opened my eyes. Nothing, no one was there.
"Dude, what are you doing?" I turned around to see Danny looking at me oddly.
"Nothing, it doesn't matter." I said shaking my head as I closed the door.
Danny raised his eyebrows.
"Right, well your 'nothing' woke me up, so obviously, your 'nothing' is a 'something'."
"What?"
He sighed. "Dude, you were screaming."
I looked embarrassed.
"had a nightmare." I muttered quietly and sat on the floor.
"yeah, I gathered that-" He moved to sit by me. "-what about?"
"Dad." I whispered.
Danny kept quiet. I didn't think he knew what to say, neither did I.
We sat there for a few minutes in silence.
"One minute." Danny said and ran out the room.
I sat there waiting for him to come back. When he did, he was holding two guitars, he passed me one.
I looked at him oddly.
"You can play right?-" I nodded. "-well this helps me when I'm feeling down."
I started playing randomly. Danny smiled and bobbed his head to the sound.
"Oh, hey, I've been working on a song that kind of fit's the mood, wanna hear it?"
I nodded.
"Ok don't laugh, its not finished yet." He warned me.
"When everything is going wrong
And things are just a little strange
It's been so long now
You've forgotten how to smile.
And overhead the skies are clear
But it still seems to rain on you,
And your only friends all have
Better things to do.
When your down and lost
And you need a helping hand.
When your down and lost,
Along the way.
Oh, just tell yourself
Ah, I'll be OK."
"Dude, that's chart material!" I said smiling enthusiastically.
He laughed. "It's not that good." He said shyly. I gave him a death glare.
"I don't know what to put next though."
"Hmm, how about:
Now things are only getting worse
And you need someone to take the blame"
"Dude! Songwriters mind!" I laughed.
The next few hours we spent writing his song which we later named 'I'll be ok'.