The Devil and Daniel Messer 3
Makes me wonder if anyone even caught the Gary Sinise reference in the last installment…
Like the makeshift title says, it's the third installment, so that would mean…chapters 5 and 6. Oh goodie! Oh yes, and do ignore the errors, if there is, and most likely are, any.
Because I'm lame, I didn't place a disclaimer.
And I still haven't.
Chapter 5
Mac lay on Danny's bed while said boy rounded the floor in circles, mumbling incoherently to himself with his hand resting on his chin. He reminded Mac of an evil villain thinking out his next plot. It was cute.
While he was doing this, Mac leaned over the side of the bed to open up a drawer in Danny's nightstand and started rifling through the mess. During his excavation, he found what looked like a journal. Intrigued, he lifted the book up to inspect its black leather cover before a pair of hands hurriedly ripped it from his grasp.
"Hey man, if you're gonna go through my things make sure ya ask first, alright?" Danny said, his voice a little shaken. His brow was furrowed in minor worry and his breath had quickened. 'Jeez,' thought Mac, 'It's as if the little bastard's got all the world's secrets hidden in there…'
Mac grinned and nodded. "Sorry, didn't mean to intrude…though I can already just guess what's in there." He pointed at the journal resting safely in Danny's hold.
Danny's eyes widened, remembering that the Devil was already aware of your secrets.
"Well, don't. It's all secret, secret stuff, so just stay outta it." Danny squinted at him for a moment before heading over to his closet, where he placed the special book atop a high shelf.
Dusting his hands off like it was a difficult task; he headed back over to the bed and jumped on it, seating himself next to Mac. He lay down unawares that he was resting against the other.
"So," Mac started, "Not allowed to have older friends, eh?"
"Huh? Oh yeh, heh, I guess not." Danny replied, remembering his mother's reaction.
Danny's bare forearm brushed up against Mac's hand and he shuddered. "Christ, you're freezing!!"
"And you're just now noticing?" Mac raised a brow in a 'well, DUH' fashion.
"Apparently!" Danny rolled over onto his stomach and pulled his arms up, resting his chin on them.
"So, Mac, got a girl—or boy—friend?" He asked, starting up idle chat. He froze when he suddenly felt a heavy weight rest against his back and moist, chilling breaths blast against the back of his neck.
"Why, are you interested?" The older man asked huskily, breathing his words into Danny's reddened ear.
Danny was briefly at a lost for words. "You, uh, you better not be plannin' on dry-humpin' me back there…I might scream rape…"
Mac chuckled deeply. "Oh, whatever. You know your getting something out of this, ya silly boy."
Danny swallowed thick and audibly.
Mac bravely slipped a hand underneath Danny and grabbed hold of the boy's nether regions. "What's this-?"
Danny squirmed out from under Mac and pushed him off, gasping heavily. "What the Hell, man?!"
Mac backed up and threw up his hands in defense. "Hey, hey, no reason to be ashamed, all boys do that."
Danny's pretty face reddened; he was still 'pitching'. "I'm not ashamed, I'm just-!"
"-Embarrassed?" Danny looked down at the carpet. He never realized how ugly that shade of green really was.
"I said it was okay. Besides, I meant for you to get like that." He placed his hands in his pockets.
"What-?" Danny was now confused.
"I dunno, just felt like testing you." Mac shrugged and took two steps closer to the quivering boy.
"Come 'ere." Mac made a slight come-hither motion with his hands.
Danny didn't understand, but walked into Mac's opened arms anyway. He felt himself being hugged and he looked up into the man's face. His emerald eyes asked if the boy was going to hug him back, so Danny did.
"Still embarrassed?" Mac asked, grinning.
"…A little."
Mac hugged him even tighter, confusing Danny all the more. Danny blushed, and not out of shame, but rather sudden liking. He felt...safe. Safer now than he'd ever felt in what seemed like the longest time.
Both noticed this and both smiled without the other's knowing.
After what seemed like hours, Mac finally let go of Danny and walked to the window.
"Well kid, I gotta go." He grinned and waved.
Danny stepped toward him. "You're gonna come back, right?" the boy asked with a hint of hope in his voice.
"Sure," Mac looked up at the ceiling for a moment and then looked back down at Danny, "I can pick you up after school tomorrow. Sound good?" Danny nodded.
"Yeh, sure, but how will I know where you're at?"
"Oh, you'll know. I'm not that hard to find when I've got the right eye-catcher." Danny didn't understand what he meant, but nodded anyway.
With that said, Mac started to levitate, much to Danny's bewildered surprise, and drifted through the window glass, waving.
Danny shook his head, wondering if he'd ever get used to his time with the Devil.
Chapter 6
Danny lay in his bed thinking over the past day's events.
If it weren't from the Devil's deep chill that had remained even after the hug, Danny didn't think that he'd be able to believe it all.
The chill that blanketed his body was so cold that it had left a nice, oddly warm, and yet numbing feeling in him. He felt safe, much like he did earlier.
And to him that felt good.
He could almost feel the moonlight that had been washing over him through his window and he looked up. It was then that he noticed the frost-covered glass.
'But it's not winter…' He thought. And then he remembered how cold Mac was. 'Odd. You'd think the Devil would be hot or something, but not Arctic…hmm. That's something to ponder."
Shrugging, he cuddled in deeper into his numerous pillows and sighed, still smelling Mac on them. The smell was that of a winter breeze or fresh snow. Either way, Danny was getting aroused.
'What the Hell?' He shook his head. 'No, there's no way I like Mac, I'm in love with Flack…right? Right. Mac's probably just got some Devil spell going on me or somethin', nothin' to worry about. I only feel for one guy.'
Or at least that's what his mind was telling him…
Chapter 7
Danny growled at himself. He forgot to take his glasses off when he went to bed and now he had to deep grooves dug into the bridge of his nose.
'Right between the eyes.' He thought.
"Uh, hey, anybody sittin' here?"
He broke out of his focus and looked up to see Donny Flack towering above him.
"Uh, no, no, no one's sittin' here."
Flack looked around as if waiting to be invited. "Sooo, can I?"
"Sure, be my guest." Danny scooted over more towards the window and Flack took the seat next to him.
They both looked away from each other awkwardly, Danny blushing and Flack fumbling with the zipper on his jacket.
Finally, Flack was the one to break the stilled silence with, "So, do you like…sports?"
Danny seemed to light up at this. "Yeh, I love sports! Baseball's my favorite."
"Really?" Flack asked, smiling, "Me too!"
Now Danny appeared to glow. "Wow!"
They carried on with this conversation for the whole bus ride to school while in the back Hawkes and Aiden both stared with wide, proud smiles.
It was after school and Danny sat with his two best friends on the sidewalk in front of the school yard. Hawkes and Aiden were bobbing their heads to the beat of Danny rapping Eminem's 'Lose Yourself".
"-These ho's is all on 'im-!"
"Danny!"
"Huh?" He looked behind him and saw Mac standing not fifteen feet away from him. He was leaning against a cherry red Cadillac, the ever-present grin spread across his face.
"Holy shit, dude!!" Danny leapt from his seat on the pavement while Aiden and Hawkes just stayed in place and gaped at each other, confused.
"Is that yours?!" Danny asked excitedly, practically bouncing in front of Mac.
"Mmm, you could say that, but I'm giving 'er to you."
Danny's jaw nearly swept the floor, his eyes as wide as milk saucers. "You can't be fucking serious."
"Oh but I am. Hop on in, I'm drivin' this round." Mac said as he walked to the driver's side of the beauty car.
"Yes sir!" Danny said as he pretty much threw himself into the passenger's side.
For the second time that day, Aiden and Hawkes, along with numerous other students (and teachers), were left to stare in shock, this time with a high dosage of confusion added in.
Danny and Mac, however, drove off, each with his own type of grin.
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I'm gonna pretend that I wasn't absent for as long as I was.
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