I went to catch my breath. Now he won't ever talk to me again. I got a conflict in my mind. What do I love more? What am I going to do!?
I stopped at a small playground which has a swing set by the drive-in. I heard someone moaning and looked to see a shadow of a guy sitting on the swings. I was about to turn and go, but then I stepped on the stupid branch which was right behind me.
"I'm sorry. I didn't know people still come here," I exclaimed. But then I realized that guy looks so familiar.
I asked, "Danny?"
He looked at my figure in the darkness. "Who's there?"
"It's me... Jan." I came a little closer.
He says, "Oh. Hey." He looks away sad.
Wait. Wasn't he out with Sandy?
"Weren't you supposed to be on a date with Sandy?"
He sighed. "I was."
Oh god. What did he do now...
"What did you do? That's the third time this year!"
Danny looked away for moment, until he said telling the truth, "She got mad at me because I tried to hit on her."
My eyes widened. "Why would you do that?" I snapped.
"Because I gave her a ring, and thought we can make out. But then she flipped, and left. Shutting the car door on my…uh…" He looks down and back up. "…yeah."
I nodded taking in what he said, and I realize where she slammed the car door on. But then something came to my mind. "Wait... You told the guys about Sandy?" I asked with a twisted confused look on my face.
He replied, "Yeah."
I asked him again, "Did you happen to tell them the truth?"
Danny nodded and then said, "Yeah. We made out, and went to an arcade and that kind of stuff."
But Sandy told us none of that stuff. "She told us none of it. We're you lyin' to the guys?" I asked with a little snap.
He nodded slowly. "I just don't have a heart to tell the guys what I really did. I didn't even know she went to this school!" He said a little angrier. "If we hadn't met in private, she would've broken up with me!"
"That was low. Way low." I scolded lightly.
"What's low?" He looked back at me as he stood up.
I snapped angrily. "Everything that you did! First you lied to the guys, hurting her feelings, leaving her to dance with some girl who doesn't even come to Rydell, and now you try to make out. What the hell is wrong with you Danny?"
"I don't know!" He shouted and turned his back at me putting his hands behind his head. "I don't know what to do." He says a little more calm. I don't think we seen each other angry before. I don't even think we talked to each other before. "When I spent my summer working at the beach as a fry cook or a life guard. I found her and found love. I was really down when Rizzo broke up with me, but when she was about to go back to Australia, I was changed. But then as soon as I returned to Rydell, I got cool again. But I didn't even know Sandy goes to Rydell. I didn't know she never left last minute."
I listened to the whole thing. I can't believe about the mix up he has been going through. "Sandy kinda told us who the mystery guy was..." I said coolly. "I'm really sorry..."
"About what?" Danny asked turning around. "Y' didn't do anything wrong."
I sat on the swing and said, "Me snappin' at ya a minute ago."
"Oh... Right... I forgive ya." He smiles sadly and then asks, "Hey? Aren't ya with the guys?"
"I was... Until..." I took a deep breath and was about to explain and then shook my head. "I can't say."
"Why?" Danny asked as he comes and sits on the swing next to me.
I replied, "It's because you're a guy. And the leader. You wouldn't be able to understand. I'm just shy. I never talked with the leader of the T-Birds."
Danny says, "It's alright. If it's personal, it's ok. Y' don't have to talk about it."
I looked down to the ground for a moment and then looked back up and said, "Wait. I don't really think it's personal." I pointed to him and me back and forth repeatedly. "I think you and I are on the same boat."
"Really?" He asked. "Y' sure?"
"Yeah. Alright I'll tell you. Something has changed in me. For the first time in my life. I'm actually having a conflict..."
He nodded and then I explained, "I don't know how much more I love a guy when I'm stuck in an overweight body. All my life, I've been eating. I've been gaining weight since I was young. I try my hardest to lose it but I can't. It's ridiculous. I can't help but go on like this, but as I finally got a boyfriend, I don't know how much more I love. Then I ran off leaving him there."
A tear slipped down my face and I wiped it. "Now he won't ever talk to me again because of what I did."
"It ain't your fault. And by the way, you're right. We are on the same boat. I think we both need a change in our lives. Like me to get Sandy back, and you to be beautiful for a guy."
"No." I say staring at the ground, "not only for Putzie. I just need to grow up. I'm really sick of acting like a child now. Since I'm graduating, I don't know what will happen the rest of my life, if I ever get married, and have kids." I shook my head.
I made sure if he listened to the whole dilemma and nodded. "I don't know how to get Sandy back. She'll never forgive for what I did. I bet she left me and won't talk to me. Even after graduation."
That was when I have an idea. I looked up to him and says making a deal, "I'll tell ya what! I'll find Sandy one day at school and tell her to apologize! She and I just became friends a while ago. She always listens to me and Frenchy."
Then a smile grows on his face. "You would do that Jan?"
I nodded.
"In that case, I'll tell Putzie about you wanting to apologize. He takes shop with me."
I nodded and then we shook hands making the deal. I wish to hug, but that would be totally awkward to hug a leader.
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