A different point of view is... different to write. And a bit harder, hence the shortness of it (roughly just over 2,000 words). My apologies and I'm practically beating myself up I didn't make it at least 3,000. But it's better than nothing I guess. I just had to give some insight as to what the others are thinking about Danny.

What happened with Ai and Danny will be explained next chapter, promise, as well as why Danny failed to realize a certain detail about Ai (mentioned at the end).

~CWA


CHAPTER FIVE


Two weeks later

Wasabi's Point of View

Two full weeks of having Danny has a roommate and I still don't know that much about the guy. I mean, I know a bit. I know he's a workaholic, doesn't get enough sleep, practically lives on coffee, leaves to go somewhere for lunch nearly every day, his family apparently died, he still has an older sister, he's from New York, and video chats with who appears to be his girlfriend every night. I know more than the others at least, but I still can't, for the life of me, know things about Danny that are actually important. Like what he plans on doing after college. What his favorite food is. When his birthday is. Those are things that I like to know about my friends and I do consider him a friend. I hope he considers me one too. It seems like he does. Every once in a while, he'll bring me coffee when he gets back from wherever he goes for lunch. Unlike my last roommate, he doesn't mess with my things or put something out of place. He seems to stick to his side of the room, doesn't mess with the closet, and tries to keep it sort of clean.

In my defense, I have tried to talk to him, but he's usually pretty busy. He always seems to be working on his project (because there's no way I'm actually going to call it what it is) or just working on something. Every night, he stays up later than me so I don't know what time he ends up going to bed. If he does at all. But he stays up so late working on what look like to be blueprints for something- probably for his project, but when I've glanced over a few times, it didn't seem to be for that. It looked almost like a helmet of some sort that he's working on.

Not to mention how Danny is a bit...strange. There's just something off about him that I can't really place. Like how he's so quiet and never seems to make any sounds when he walks or even breathes. His eyes always seem to be open and I've rarely even seen him blink. Not to mention how he always seems to manage to just disappear whenever I look for him. Kinda gives Fred's nickname for him a whole new meaning. It just gives me some bad vibes sometimes. It doesn't change the fact that, aside from his little fight with Tadashi, Danny seems like a pretty good, decent guy.

Shaking those thoughts out of my head, I try to turn my focus back on my own project in the lab. Danny isn't here yet for once. Which is a bit strange. But I'm not going to worry too much about it. It's not my job to look after the guy. I'm not his mother.

"-All I'm saying is he's obviously delusional. I mean, he's a nice guy, really, but how can he be so confident that this so called project of his is going to work? Isn't a portal to some sort of Limbo a bit… hard to believe?"

I click my tongue slightly, knowing exactly who Tadashi is talking about. Looking up, I can't help but add into the conversation he's having with Honey Lemon and GoGo.

"He's a nice guy and that's all that matters, isn't it? You and him have it out for each other, so doesn't that make your comment a bit bias?"

Tadashi runs his fingers through his hair, taking off his cap to do so,

"I… You have a point, Wasabi. I don't mean to sound so cruel, but a portal to some sort of Ghost world is pretty hard to swallow, don't you think?"

"Makes you wonder why he's so sure that it's gonna work," GoGo pitches in, blowing her bubble gum.

She rolls her eyes, unconvinced. I muse a bit for a moment at her words. I think back to when I first met Danny. He told me how his parents. I sober up a bit as I muse about that. It's… possible that Danny's strong belief in ghosts is connected to his parents. I think he said that they used to be ghost hunters and if they died…. It's not that uncommon for people to do strange things to cope with their grief. Or maybe it's something else entirely.

"We don't know that much about him," Honey Lemon hesitantly adds in, "Do we even know anything about him beside his obviously strong belief in supernatural?"

That's a bit strange. Honey Lemon doesn't really join in gossip that often. I don't think I ever hear her gossip so… openly… about anyone. But I can't really blame her. Danny is a pretty… mysterious guy. There's just something about him I guess. Makes people want to know everything about him.

"Paranormal," Fred pitches in, "Paranormal, not supernatural."

I roll my eyes slightly. Of course Fred knows the exact difference between the paranormal and supernatural. I really should have expected that to be honest. If anyone knows anything about the weird and strange, it's him. And Danny probably.

"What do you know, Wasabi," Tadashi asks, "Your his roommate after all."

I shrug my shoulders, waving my hands a bit,

"I don't know that much either. I know he's from New York. He has a sister there. Possibly a girlfriend too because he's always video chatting every night- says it's the love of his life or something like that."

"-That's cute," Honey cuts in with a small wistful smile, "It's nice that he's so dedicated to her then. But I wonder why he's never mentioned her."

I've always wondered that too. Danny seems to be a more open person, even if he does keep his secrets.

"Well, it's not like we've been the friendliest bunch with Mr. Sour over there," GoGo jabs her thumb toward Tadashi, who makes a small pouting face at the nickname.

His reaction causes us all to share a small laugh before I continued.

"-When I first met Danny though he told me his parents died a few years ago. Don't know the how or why and I didn't ask."

I shake my head slightly with a small staggered sigh. To be honest, I didn't ask because I didn't want to know. It's his business after all. Not to mention that if it only happened a few years ago, it may still be fresh. An opened wound. Or worse, a healing wound that I wouldn't want to open. At least Tadashi has at least seven to eight years to help himself heal over his own parents death.

Honey Lemon and GoGo share a sympathetic, saddened look. Even Fred seems to be hesitating, opening and closing his mouth with a musing expression on his face. I glance briefly toward Tadashi. It seems the news of Danny's parents has sobered him up a little as his eyes gloss over, his posture a bit more stiff and hesitant. As if he doesn't know what to say or how to apologize for how douchy he's been acting. Really. The guy's one of the nicest men I know and this is the worst I've ever seen him act ever.

But he's saved from speaking at all by the sound of someone hitting the wall outside the lab. You'd think that with it being a lab there'd be sound proof walls. You'd also be wrong. I quirk an eyebrow and share a slightly confused look with the others. While it's not exactly sound proof, you'd still have to be pretty loud to be heard. I wonder just who it is that's…. Wait. No. Nevermind. It's probably Danny. I can feel it in my gut.

Sure enough, Danny practically storms in, his hair a mess and his eyes glazed over. He looks like he just ran a marathon. He's all sweaty and disheveled. I get the brief urge to just walk over there and fix him up so he doesn't look so… messy.

"Who'd you piss off," GoGo asks bluntly, causing Danny's eyes to snap to her,

"I… I didn't… I… Don't tell her where I am. She's… She's freaking hormone driven and wild. I can't take it! I called her and she just..."

He babbles on for a moment, not making too much sense. I wonder who he's talking about. Obviously not his girlfriend from the way he's talking, not to mention if his girlfriend is back in New York it's unlikely she's here. Though it's clear from everyone's expression that none of us know who he's talking about. Just whose hormone driven and wild? I quick an eyebrow and eye him again, my mind going to a different place. He comes in here, looking messy as he does, babbling about a woman….

Oh. Hell. No.

He better not be cheating on that poor girlfriend of his. Sharing a look with the others, they seem to come to the same conclusion I have as they all stiffen and glare slightly at Danny, not pleased with him at all. He seems oblivious to our glares as he runs to GoGo desperately, his hands clasped in a pleading position. With him closer to us, I can see the faint lip stick marks on his neck and his cheek as well as the faint nail marks near his shoulder blades.

GoGo looks ready to punch him. Even Honey Lemon looks visibly upset and Fred is just giving his I'm disappointed in you look that's almost comical. Tadashi looks the most upset, physically shaking as his eyes blaze with anger.

"Please, please, hide me, I beg you," Danny's voice is laced with desperation.

"You're having some issues with some girl you just hooked up with that's not your girlfriend? You're lucky I'm not punching you."

GoGo doesn't sugarcoat it as she stands stiff, a small snarl on her face as she glares at him. Danny's eyes go wide and frantic as he looks at her in surprise.

"M-My what? I d-don't have a- please just hide me! I swear I'm a loyal guy and I don't have a girlfriend, I just told that to Wasabi to mess with him when I'm video chatting my sister because technically, she and my- she is the only family I have left so of course they're the loves of my life and I just…. Please! I'm desperate!"

I stare blankly at him, not sure what should surprise me more. The fact that he's hiding from a girl whose trying to hook up with him and can't seem to shake her off his trail like he does everyone else. Or the fact that he lied to me. I crinkle my nose a bit going over that information. Technically he never really lied. He did tell me it was just the love of his life so he never truly said it was a girlfriend. At everyone's looks, I just shrug at them, signaling that yeah, he's right I guess.

Danny just clutches to GoGo, his head buried toward the ground as he pleads with her to hide him. He probably knows that pleading with the others won't do him any good- Honey Lemon would panic, Fred would suggest hiding in a potted plant, Takashi wouldn't help at all, and I'd be too worried to help him myself. GoGo is his best bet. And he seems to pass whatever test she's giving him as she finally just nods and quickly shoves him behind one of the lab tables, ducking him behind it so that the table's cloth would cover him. Why he didn't think to hide there in the first place, I don't know.

It's only a second after he's hidden does a girl burst through, her eyes frantic and pleaded, her lipstick smeared a bit as she glances over the room. I think I know her from the Dimensional Theory Club. Ai, I think. But I'm not too sure. She narrows her eyes at us as she crosses her arms, her lips thinning into a small frown.

"Where did he go? We hooked up and he just kind of spaced out and freaked. I've been following him all day for an explanation and I know he came in here. It's kind of hard to hide from a psychic after all."

A...psychic? It figures that Danny, the biggest believer of the paranormal I know, managed to hook up with a psychic.