"Why do you have to make me feel?"
Odd how only having arrived yesterday that Danny felt he may have fallen for Jojo and possible vise verse.
Danny heard the sentence echo in his head. He was at a complete loss for words. And now his heart was racing and his cheeks were scolding red. His eyes definitely weren't those many colors that had previously been giving him a headache. No, they were now absolutely bright green, purple and orange. Danny didn't have to look in a mirror to see it. Like always he could feel it. And besides feeling happy that he realized his chance may have been doubled in a matter of half a day, Danny was also shocked.
As he was still lingering over the raven haired who that had said those eight words Danny had begun chewing his bottom lip. He had even let go of Jojo's wrists so he could wipe at his eyes. The white haired who didn't want to give the impression that he was disgusted or freaked by what Jojo had said, he just wanted to give him a little space. Though Danny loved other who contact he felt he was way beyond personal space with Jojo.
So he pulled away without uttering so much as a sound and sat back next to the smaller who.
As Danny sat their contemplating over a few things he heard Jojo sniffle a few times before the initial shift of grass as he sat up.
Then he looked over to see Jojo with his thing legs pulled up to his chest and his chin propped on his folded arms.
Jojo's rich, brown orbs were slightly hazy looking from the tears. His midnight hair ruffled a bit was still it's normal shape and moved when the breeze blew. And even though the sun made him glow a happier tone, Danny knew he was far from happy at the moment but he couldn't help but wonder how the paler who would look in moonlight.
Danny quickly pulled his mind from that thought and began to think of something else. Something he could say while also mentally kicking himself for screwing everything up. The white haired teen quickly pulled his legs up so he could prop his elbows and hold his head.
"DAMMIT! Why did this have to happen. It's just one thing after the other today isn't it? I mean it's helping me understand him but after a day in a half I feel like I've completely ruined his life. He probably wont talk to me anymore. Especially not after nearly falling off a cliff. Way to go Danny, thanks for being so Fucking clumsy!"
As happy as a who that Danny normally was he could also swear and become furious if the moment called for it. And now he could feel the crimson red work it's way into his eyes. He couldn't remember the last time he was so angry. He just didn't know what to do. For one thing he wanted to say sorry to Jojo and possibly beg for forgiveness. The other was asking Jojo if he liked him more than a friend. If he did then their was always trying to kiss him. But Danny felt things were rushing really fast. May be he should just apologize and go from their or-.
"Danny?"
Danny quickly snapped his head towards the call of his name. Which may have been a bad idea considering he did it so fast that he felt pain and he figured he looked like a psycho with red eyes. He wasn't to surprised to see Jojo jump at the sudden look. But this realization and just looking at the smaller who made the anger start to melt away. Danny could feel the crystal blue and emerald green come back.
"Y-Yes?" Danny finally asked.
Jojo just stared for a moment before finally talking. "Sorry." He simply mumbled.
That caught Danny off guard. "What is he apologizing for?" He thought.
"Jojo you have nothing to-." But Danny was cut off as Jojo spoke again.
"I-I'm sorry about yelling at you and s-saying weird crap. I just panicked and I've been getting swarmed with things I haven't either felt in a long time or e-ever before. So I just want to be able to think about it and maybe if your not mad we could still go to the observatory and act like this didn't happen." The entire time Jojo had said this he had been staring at his hands with his hair almost completely covering his eyes and was fumbling when he spoke.
"So what do you say?" Jojo said while glancing at the taller.
Danny was somewhat torn at Jojo's request. It just made him sad that Jojo was willing to push this away so fast. Of course Danny could understand the need. Part of him wanted the rest of the barely begun day to go without a hitch. So he gave in. His own need to please his new friend was more than willing to push the awkward moment away. For now. So Danny looked to Jojo and pulled another warm smile.
"It's okay Jojo. You had every right to yell. I was the one who wasn't paying attention when I went up. So I'm sorry." Danny rubbed at the back of his head while saying the apology. "The plan still sounds good to me. So should we go?" Danny felt more revealed at saying this.
And apparently so did Jojo. He actually smiled a little again. "Yeah we should." But when he moved to get up, Danny sprung. He rapped his long arms around the smaller and pulled him into another warm hug. Danny felt Jojo freeze at the action because of his surprise, but then immediately relax a bit.
"He's getting used to it." Danny thought happily. But that was ended when Jojo began squirming a bit.
"O-Okay seriously Danny. I've had enough hugs to last me a life time. J-Jeez."
That made Danny laugh on the inside and out. He pulled away and looked down at the smaller.
"Ha. No, I don't think so. Your getting used to it. I can tell."
This statement caused Jojo's face to turn red again. He looked down to try and hide it, but Danny saw it already. "Teasing is to much fun." Danny said to himself.
"W-Well shut up. I am not" Jojo tried to say with more defiance, but it came out embarrassed and quite.
All though Jojo had said 'shut up', Danny did the opposite. This moment was definitely helping in lightening the mood. "Someone needs to come up with better comebacks."
Jojo gawked at that. "What ever. Lets just go." So to Danny's surprise he turned the taller until he faced forward and began pushing behind to get him up the hill.
Though Danny did make sure to not relax to much or risk falling on Jojo, he still didn't quite pick up his feet. Even though he said. "Okay, okay I'm going." But instead he started singing and waving his arms like a maniac saying "Your getting used to it" or "You like hugs" in every different rhythm he could think of, on their way up.
And when Danny glanced behind him, Jojo was smirking.
…...
When they finally reached the old, abandoned observatory, Jojo felt complete relief. Coming here always made him feel better. So again to Danny's surprise Jojo pulled out from behind the taller, who had been leaning just a fraction to much on the back of heels. And that in turn caused him to fall back after humorously waving his arms to try and stay up. Then he fell with a 'thud' and "Ow. Okay I deserved that."
Jojo laughed. "Yeah you did. Now I feel better." So he proceeded to help the white haired teen to his feet.
Then they finally walked to the ridiculously sized door and Jojo unlocked the normal one built into it. The darker who felt his heart beat and mind speed up. He was a little nervous about showing his inventions to some one else. Even though his father was the first to witness them, that didn't mean Jojo wasn't still fearful of what others would think. Especially the others being just Danny.
So he sucked in a deep breath, released it and pushed on the door.
With a loud 'creak' it opened. Jojo made a mental note to get more oil for the hinges.
And as both teens walked into the dimly lit area, they were greeted by large misshapen objects hanging around and sitting in every area possible. Most if not all were covered in tarps that Jojo put up to protect them.
Jojo noticed that Danny had grown quiet. But figured he was just waiting patiently till he could actually see what everything looked like. So Jojo quickly ran over to a few pulleys and yanked on them.
One of the pulley ropes went down while another went up and the loud clatter of gears began to shift. The gears were turning the tumblers that held the observatory's moving chamber for the telescope, closed. But when they moved out of place the chamber opened up and sunlight was let into the now apparently vast room.
After that Jojo started climbing up a branched, metal pole. Under neath that pole where some reinforced tarps, made from the material of drums. So if Jojo fell he would be caught with out the fear of falling to his death. When he reached the top he jumped onto a jutting stair case that hung from the edge of a platform. Then the dark who ran and pulled a lever that started large fans, set close to anything with a tarp thrown over it. The fans moved fast and brushed the tarps up in one direction. And they all leisurely landed on each other at another corner of the room.
Jojo looked around once to make sure nothing was wrong or out of place. Seeing that everything was in order he jumped from the platform down to the few trampolines he used for the giant rubber band balls and landed back on his feet in front of Danny. When he looked up to see the taller who's expression on the whole thing, it was actually sort of blank with his mouth slightly hanging open.
Jojo felt another smile spread on his face along with a small bit of courage. He walked a bit closer and pushed Danny's mouth closed. Then stepped back and asked. "What do you think?"
…...
Danny's cheeks had turned a barely visible shade of pink at the contact from Jojo. It was something else he hadn't expected. But the smaller was showing he was full of surprises. And the entire time he had been doing what Danny figured was what he did every day, the white haired who was again in aw.
His green orbs looked around the room at all of the inventions.
Long,thin slides jutted from a single piece of machinery, high up in the middle of the room. It held a vast number of different colored balls. Then their were large symbols, drums,bells, and horns hanging, welded together or attached to things every where. Metal bars and tubes rapped around, bent or curled went over , under and around every where as well. Two large rubber band balls sat at opposite sides of the room and loomed over another two sets of trampolines. One of them being the set that Jojo took to come down. Their were also ropes, chains, pulleys and every size of gear Danny could imagine.
When he looked down at Jojo to answer his question, "What do you think?", Danny felt a wave of pure excitement run him over.
"I-It's, It's just really, REALLY amazing. It's like I didn't even expect this much. I figured a lot but wow. This is so cool." That was all Danny could really say. He was still looking at everything, making sure he hadn't missed anything.
Then he heard a brief chuckle and looked to see that Jojo seemed genuinely pleased. If not just absolutely thrilled. His chocolate eyes looked really happy.
"Thanks. It's great to hear what some one else thinks, besides my dad. Why don't we go down the lower platform and you can give me your opinion on a few other things I'm trying to work on."
Jojo directed towards some stairs on the right. Their where only a few steps but they where actually split into four sets with a landing between each one.
Danny pulled from his amazed stupor and smiled back. "Sounds great."
They then went their way.
With it now being about half an hour from one the teens would spend at least six hours sharing ideas , trading stories and having the most fun neither of them had ever had.
Author note: Okay finally here's this chapter. Took me a little bit. The last sentence bugs me a bit. Does it sound right. Not to sure. This one just took me a while cause last week the sophomores had the OGT's. I was exhausted. Came home Friday and slept for three hours. lol. But at least I wont have to ever do them again. Their not hard it's just you got to school and sit in silence for 2 hours while you do them, then go to all of your classes except for ninth period. But at least all of the classes are only thirty minuets.
And back to the story I'm thinking of getting the day finished, maybe having Jojo go to Danny's after all and just maybe doing a flash forward a year later. What do you guys think? A little older a little wiser. And that's more than enough time for Jojo to get things straight. I have this idea for a special moment. So give me your opinion. It's just a thought. Cause I can do a chapter of information of what has happened over that year and stuff.