AN: Chapter two out of two for double chapter Mondays! Enjoy the episode tonight.. I'll be watching too!
"Are you really okay, Danny?" I ask when we enter my room. I navigate around the piles of clothes and papers on the floor, sitting on the bed.
"Yeah... it's just... everything's been so fast the last two days and definitely dangerous," he says, sitting down next to me looking defeated or at least weary.
"Yeah, well, my life's like this all the time, dangerous. It makes me feel like everything is a game," I reply, knocking some papers off my bed so I can lie down.
"What about us, then, Ethan?" Danny has a pained look on his face.
"If it were a game, I'd have to say that love is a dangerous game to play," I say quietly. "Who knows if this is a game? All I know is that I love you and I can say that honestly."
He gives me a half smile and leans down to kiss me. It's a nice, long kiss that tastes as close to love as you can get. With him on top of me, I feel like there's no way we could get closer.
A rapping at the door makes him pull away. "Aiden wants to know if you want to go on a double date today." Lydia's voice rings out loudly.
I look at Danny. "You up for that?"
"Sure," he says. "Where are we going?"
"We haven't decided yet. When you finish snogging each other, you can come downstairs and help us decide." Her heels click on the hard floor as she walks away.
"Right, I have to change. I forgot," I say.
I pull a black shirt with three buttons off my bed, lift my shirt up and put the new shirt on. Walking to my closet, I look over a selection of jackets. Selecting a black leather jacket that would go great for if I'm riding my motorcycle.
Danny looks away as I grab a pair of dark denim jeans and put them on, completing my dark look. "Oh, Danny, I don't mind if you watch." I say with a lighthearted laugh.
When I finish dressing, Danny says, "Let's go downstairs and pick where we're going."
I take his hand as we head downstairs. Lydia and Aiden are already holding hands on the couch, looking expectantly at us. I take a seat along with Danny at a couch opposite theirs.
"The options so far are bowling, swimming, a movie, or just walking through the park," Lydia says.
As we consider the options, Kali appears again near the kitchen. Aiden turns to look at her. "What's up, Kali?"
"I'm going out, now, visiting someone. I need you two on Monday. I'm giving a surprise for a person I've come to hate... and like," she says, giving us a razor sharp smile. Immediately, I know the surprise is for Derek. She won't tell us the plan with Lydia, here, but a icy, rigid feeling takes over me, making me shiver slightly. She walks gracefully out the door with her bare feet. Danny and Lydia don't even bat an eye at the sight.
A silence fills the room until Lydia says, "I don't want to go bowling."
"Why not?" Danny asks.
Lydia looks at the floor with a sigh. "I-I-I went with J-J-"
"Oh, then let's not go bowling," Danny interrupts, not letting her finish. I wonder who Lydia was talking about. An ex-boyfriend she isn't over yet, maybe? Whoever they are, Danny clearly knows them too.
"Well, I don't want to see a movie," Aiden replies. "There's never anything good out."
"You mean nothing action-y enough for you?" I ask. "Nothing ever seems bloody enough."
"Sure, let's go with 'not bloody enough,'" Aiden says, with a white toothed smile. I envision someone's blood on his teeth and I look away instantly.
"So swimming or park?" Lydia inquires.
"I vote park," I say. "It's a bit cold for swimming."
"Yeah, but it's indoor. We'll be fine. I vote swimming," Aid says.
"Swimming's fine with me," Lydia says.
"Well, since things seem to go wrong every time we're outside or something," Danny starts, "I think I'll pick pool too."
"Sorry, Eth, you're outvoted," Aiden says. He doesn't look sorry at all.
"I think I'll go home and change, then," Lydia tells us. She walks outside to her car and waves goodbye.
"We'll take my bike to your house after I change then," I say to Danny.
"Sure," Danny says.
After I change into my swim trunks, pulling on a t-shirt over it, I'm zooming along on my motorcycle with Danny holding onto my waist. I strangely have a flashback of a time a few weeks ago when I was chasing Isaac and a girl who rescued him. Deuc killed her at school in the end, but we got injured. I remember scratching their motorcycle, morphing into our bigger wolf form. That was one painful but enjoyable night, at least at the time.
When we arrive, Danny goes into his house while I eavesdrop on his conversations with his family as usual.
"When did you leave?" Danny's dad asks. Whoops. I forgot that Danny left with me through the window.
"A few hours ago. Apparently, I wasn't gone long enough for you to notice," Danny replies.
"Oh, Danny, honey, don't say that," his mom says sadly.
"Well, I'm going out a bit longer today," Danny replies without sympathy for his family.
"Where ya going?" It sounds like a little boy. I didn't think Danny would have a younger brother.
"Out with a friend," Danny replies. I hear him walk up the stairs. He whispers, knowing I can hear, "My family asks too many questions. I'll be down in a sec."
When he walks back down the stairs, his younger brother asks, "Who are you going with wherever you're going?"
"He's my friend," Danny replies.
"His boyfriend," Danny's older brother adds.
"Boyfriend?" His little brother asks. I take it his brother is too young to understand that he's gay.
"Yes, my boyfriend. I keep trying to explain to you, Al, but I guess you don't understand. He just moved here," Danny says.
"What's his name?" His older brother asks too fast.
"Ethan. Now that's all you're getting out of me. I'll be back later," Danny says. I see him open the front door. He gives me an apologetic smile as he sees me, heading toward me. His older brother, I'm assuming, calls him back. I can tell he just wants a good look at me.
"You forgot your jacket," his brother says simply, handing him his jacket. "By the way, you chose nicely."
"You haven't even seen everything," Danny replies, giving his brother a wink. His brother shakes his head and walks back to the house.
Laughing, Danny crosses his lawn and says, "Ready to go?"
Going back to my house to meet up with Aid and Lydia, I think, What could possibly go wrong with a perfect day like this?
Thinking that was probably a mistake.