As everyone's jaws dropped around them, Danny and Andrew gave a smirk to each other, looking back down at their newest assignment. The second they had seen their new assignment they just knew that they had this. Everyone else was absolutely screwed.
When the teacher dismissed them, Danny immediately stood up, grabbed his chair and plopped down next to Andrew. "So...how much do you wanna bet that by teaming up we've fucked over everyone else in this room?"
Andrew thought for a moment before answering cockily. "Oh...I have a feeling that everyone's laziness and inability to pay attention will catch up to them. Our project will be so good and detailed not even Lancer can deny us the best mark."
Danny leaned forward on the desk, propping his chin up with his hand. At this point he was close to Andrew. "So, what do you you have planned?"
Andrew quickly hid his blush from his friend, quickly swallowing down his red cheeks before looking back at Danny. "I have just the thing."
They spent the rest of the class creating a long, detailed, and well thought out plan. When the bell rang signifying the end of the class and the weekend, they stood up and started gathering their things.
"So...uhm Andrew..." Danny began before Andrew could leave. His speaking caught the other boy's attention.
"Yeah? What is it?" Andrew replied, clutching his books to his chest, cocking his head.
Danny fought his own blush and rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "I...was thinking that maybe w-we could...I dunno work on it over the weekend? I'm not picky about the where. I figure we could get a lot done and...stuff..."
Andrew coughed and blushed himself. "Yeah... That could work. I just...have to ask my mom. We could work on it tomorrow. I'm kinda busy tonight but I'm free all day tomorrow. We can just...exchange numbers. J-Just so we can get ahold of each other of course!"
Danny nodded and quickly wrote out his number on a piece of paper, handing Andrew it when he was done. "Here you go...So call me. Uhm...Bye!" Danny all but ran from the room. face red, leaving Andrew there alone. He stared at the number for a moment before leaving where he was standing.
Saturday afternoon found Andrew staring at Danny's number for a long period of time. It took him at least a half an hour for him to swallow down his nervousness and finally pick up the phone. Slowly he entered the number into the phone and he waited anxiously before hearing the rings and a click, Danny's voice suddenly speaking.
"Hello? Danny speaking."
"Uh...H-Hi Danny, It's me Andrew. I was just...wondering if you were still interested working together this weekend?"
"Yeah sure! I asked and you can come over to my house if you want? Whenever you want to come over works."
Andrew sighed in relief and smiled to himself. "A-Alright. Works for me! Just can you give me directions to your house?"
Andrew got lost twice on the way to Danny's house. It wasn't Danny's fault, Andrew was just terrible with directions. For the life of him, he just had no idea how to follow them. Eventually of course, he found the right house and hesitantly walked up to the door. Once again, like with the phone, he felt completely anxious.
He stood outside of the house for several minutes trying to convince himself to finally knock on the door. But before he got to the point of having to convince himself, the door opened on it's own and there was Danny in the doorway. "Uh...hey? You gonna knock sometime soon? Maybe even come in?"
Andrew immediately flushed and grimaced. "Ah...sorry. I was going to, I just..."
Danny smiled genuinely and stopped him before he started producing word vomit to excuse himself. "Dude it's fine. Don't worry about it. Just...come in alright? It looks like it's gonna rain and I don't want you to get caught out here. Plus we do need to work on that project.
Andrew smiled at Danny's understanding and walked inside through the gap that Danny had made for him. "Th-thanks...your house is nice..."
Danny just shrugged. "Yeah, it's alright. It's a house so I can't really complain. You can just take off your shoes and then we can just go to my room. I'd really rather not be interrupted by my parents while we do it. Plus my laptop's up there and...well it's just overall easier."
By the time they had gotten to his room, Danny had already taken Andrew's bag in an almost...chivalrous gesture and gently deposited it on his bed. Andrew awkwardly sat on the edge of it and started taking out the materials for the project and immediately, a sudden sense of ease came between them as they worked together.
Their strengths in different aspects of the project fit together perfectly and an illogical thought of how they would work together outside of school work came. Andrew didn't have time to dwell over it and quickly shook it away filing it away for another time.
After a couple hours of hard work they had gotten most of the main aspects done and Danny called for a much needed break. Danny moved all of their stuff to the floor and convinced Andrew to sit next to him against his headboard. As Andrew learned, Danny's idea of a break was to watch stupid, but amusing videos on the internet. Andrew enjoyed the close proximity so he didn't complain.
Being this close to Danny made Andrew's heart pound and his stomach flutter and he couldn't think of anywhere else he would possibly be. The videos no longer interested him, even if they were interesting. He only wanted to look at Danny.
Andrew found a moment later that Danny had the exact same mindset. Before he even had time to think, Andrew leaned in towards the other boy and closed his eyes. A second later he felt lips pressed against his and he smiled at the thought that Danny wanted him back.
Danny threw the phone on the bed behind him, already long forgotten. "Finally." Danny laughed happily and pulled Andrew close, kissing him harder.
They kissed like that for a long time, only caring about the feel of each other and nothing else. They were so preoccupied that they never heard the sound of footsteps outside. Or the of the door opening. And almost missed the gasp.
"Hey sweetie! I just thought you and your friend might like-"
The sound of a crashing plate pulled them out of their little paradise and Andrew immediately turned red. "Mom! Uh….Uh...Hi?"
The face of Maddie Fenton was also red but luckily not from anger. "S-Sorry sweetie. I'll leave you alone with your boyfriend. Sorry to interrupt!" And with that, she closed the door and was gone.
Danny himself covered his face with his hands and groaned. "I am so so so sorry. That was not how I planned for our first kiss to be...not saying it was bad though…"
"R-really?" Andrew almost laughed… "I don't think anyone plans for their mom to walk in on their son kissing a strange boy and...w-wait...you...planned for this? And...it was good?"
Danny turned around immediately cupped Andrew's cheeks in his hands. He smiled and pressed his forehead to Andrew's. "Of course I do. Do you have any idea how long I've been crushing on you? And how much you drive me crazy? I have it bad. Trust me, my friends won't leave alone about it."
Andrew blushed and rubbed his nose against Danny's. "If it wasn't already obvious...I have it bad for you too…" Danny smiled and they shared a sweet kiss.