Chapter 5
Feelings?
He broke into a cold sweat, not sure what to do. As he started to calm down he thought about his circumstances. She is asleep… and hugging me. Please let her be somewhat dressed. Alright, options lets see, let's see, um, ah I can phase out of her grasp! But she is touching me, and so is the bed… never mind. Perhaps if I… no that would be worse. Ok I can pretend to be still asleep! But she might still get mad… then I guess I have to do this. And with that, he made a clone and had him make some coffee. Hopefully she reacts to coffee the same way mom does. And once the coffee was made, the clone waved a cup in front of her nose. "Mmmh coffee." She started sniffing the air and when she opened her eyes she saw two Danny's, one trying to give her coffee while blushing madly and another, with his back to her, in her arms being hugged. "Wha? I oh umm…" she stumbled on her words before unhugging him and grabbing her coffee and going to the window facing away from him. "Sorry about that…" she said, her face even redder than Danny's.
As Danny got out of bed he said "don't worry about it." And he re-fused with his clone and got himself a cup of coffee. As they got dressed they both had a lot of thoughts going through their heads. Ember was thinking, why was I hugging him? I don't even remember my dreams from last night, but for some reason it felt so… right. But why, I don't like him… do I? And Danny was thinking, she was hugging me! Ember was hugging me, what the fuck! I can't believe that just happened. And what I believe less is the fact that I think I liked it. Did I just think that? And with that they went on with their day, practicing guitar and pretending that that morning never happened.
At dusk they were getting bummed out because they were bored to death, bad pun intended. "Just go to the pool, it is across the hall from the gym." Said axel. "Sweet, a pool AND a gym." They said in unison before looking at each other with dumbfounded faces. "That didn't happen" they said in unison again. That time they just shook their heads and walked towards the recreation wing. "Awkward…" said axel before walking away. When they got there they got changed and both went to the gym. As Danny got to the weights he switched to ghost form looked down and sighed, floating back to the changing room while ember tried to hide her giggles. Wait, why am I giggling she asked herself because you like him replied a voice dafuck! What was that all about? She just sighed and started jogging on the treadmill.
When Danny came back he was wearing black shorts with a white trim and waistband, a black tank top with DP emblem and white trim, white sneakers, and a bright blue sweatband. Ember was impressed; he looked good in that outfit, where the hell did that come from? She asked herself. Danny went to the weights and started adding the weights to the bars. "One hundred, two hundred, three hundred, jeez Danny you are going to break yourself with that much weight." Said ember with a smirk. "What this? I can lift this with my pinky" said Danny with a frown. "As if, if you can't knock me out in a fight, I highly doubt you could even lift eighty pounds." Said ember with a roll of the eyes. " ember I don't know if you realize this but when we fight I go easy on you, after all I fought the fright knight, pariah dark, my future self who, by the way, killed almost everybody on earth, and I saved the entire world." Said Danny while still adding weight to his barbell. "You really went easy on me?" she asked. "Yes, I did." Replied Danny. "Alright, three thousand, now for the other one." Ember watched in amazement as he loaded a second one to three thousand. Then as he got in place between them. Her eyes bulged in surprise as he lifted them both, one hand each, and began pumping them like they were only ten pounds.
Ember just stared, that is sooo hot said that voice again what the hell! Shut up. The voice said come on you know you like him, as in like like. Then before she could reply, she heard Danny say, "um, ember, help." She turned to him and saw him in human form stuck under the weights. "What happened?" she asked him after she phased him out of it.
"I used too much power and I turned back before I could put them down." You look like you need to relax, let's go to the pool." Said ember, why did I say lets go to the pool, now I have to swim too. She thought.
When they got there they got changed. Danny came out first, this pool looks huge! He thought to himself I can't wait to see ember in a swimsuit. Wait what was that? Why the hell did I think that? He asked himself. You think she is hot; you can't hide that from me. Now he was panicking don't worry I'm not your darkness, I'm your romantic side, you just couldn't hear me before because I only work for the destined love. Now Danny was confused but before he could ask himself anymore questions, ember came out. "Whoa", he said. As she walked up to him he had a thought. "What about your hair wont it get put out?" ember just said "oh yeah!" and she put her hands on her forehead and pulled them back, and as her hands went across her hair it turned to normal hair. "That takes care of that." She said. "Care to join me for a swim?
