Chapter 4: You made me better
It's been exactly three days since Danny has left the house. Three days since he's spoken to Ethan or any of the others and he actually enjoyed the time alone. It was 9:43 Friday morning and he was lying in his bed staring out the window as the rain poured outside it. He paid no attention to the car honking outside but when his phone rang beside him he saw was Lydia. "I can't talk right now Lydia."
"Danny my hair is getting wet now come open the door." Lydia says ignoring Danny's words.
Danny groaned but got up and made his way downstairs. As soon as he opened the door she rushes in. Quickly checking to see if her hair was messes up in any kind of way. "What are you doing here and why don't you have an umbrella, it's pouring outside?"
"Because Aidan thought it'd be a good idea to ride to school on his bike while it was raining so he wouldn't get wet." Lydia was looking at herself in the window. "What have you been doing all cooped up in the house?"
Danny shrugged and leans back against the door. "Just thinking about all the stuff Ethan showed me and told me a few nights ago." He looked down at his feet. "Hey have you really known about the twins this whole time?"
"Yeah I did." Lydia says going over to him.
"And it doesn't brother you that Aidan is a...a um werewolf I guess." Danny pushed himself off the door and went over to the couch to sit down, Lydia followed them.
Lydia smiled. "It did at first but it took him almost dying to realize how much it didn't mean because I loved him."
"What do you mean he almost died?" Danny asked.
Fifteen minutes later
"Wow." Danny says. "He didn't tell me all that stuff. All the times he's disappeared on me had me thinking that he wanted to break up or was even cheating on me." He looked down. "I still hate that he's been keeping all this from me."
"Danny none of us wanted you to know because no one wanted to see you get hurt." Lydia sat back and sighed. "Especially Ethan, all he wanted was to see you happy and more importantly safe."
"I know." Danny says looking back up. "I just don't know where the two of us go from here. It's like I don't even know who he is anymore and it freaks me out. All the stuff he did and all the people he hurt, its too much."
"Nobody's perfect and I know he's made some bad choices in the past but he's changed." Lydia says and Danny keeps his head down. "Being with you made him realize the good in himself. You have no idea how much you affected him and everything else, just give him another chance."
Danny sat there staring at his hands before getting up and heading towards the stairs. "Damn you Martin."
Lydia stood up. "Where are you going?"
"To get dressed!" Danny yelled back as he went up to his room.
Fifteen minutes later Danny was making his way through the empty hallways about to go to his second period since he missed first. Before he went to class though he stopped by his locker to get his books. As he rounded the corner he bumped into someone else. He was about to say something but when he saw that it was Ethan he stopped.
"Hey." Ethan says shoving his hands in his pockets. "I was just going to the bathroom."
Danny suddenly smiled. "Your second period class is on the other side of the school and there's a bathroom right across the hall from it."
Ethan looked down but smiled. "Okay I knew that you were here and I purposely bumped into you so we could talk, sorry."
"It's okay." Danny started biting his bottom lip, gripping the strap of his book bag a little tighter. "Sorry I've be AWOL the past two days."
"Don't be." Replied Ethan. "I wanted to give you all the space that you needed." He noticed how Danny's heartbeat was slow and steady. "Are you okay?"
Danny nodded. "Yeah I'm okay, it's good to see you."
"You too." Ethan says back.
Danny shifted on his feet before looking around. "Well I better get to class, maybe I'll see you later."
Ethan nodded. "Yeah." He watched Danny go then went the opposite way back to the other side of the school.
Lunch
"So he didn't seem upset or anything when you talked to him earlier?" Aidan asked. They were seated at one of the tables near the back of the lunch room.
"No, he seemed surprisingly calm when we were talking." Ethan says. 'He might have been nervous but he was afraid of me so that's good."
"Hey?" Lydia says walking up to the table, Danny right next to her. "Do you guys mind if we join you?"
"Not at all." Aidan reached across the table and grabbed his bag from the seat across from him.
Danny watches as Lydia took the seat across from Aidan so he sat across from Ethan,the four of them then fell silent.
Aidan looked from Ethan to Danny then over to Lydia who was starting to eat her food. "So Danny how have you been the past few days?"
Danny looked up from his trey and cleared his throat. "I've been alright, still confused about something's though."
"Well then maybe Ethan can explain it all to you a little more." Aidan says cleaning up his area.
Ethan looked over at him, eyebrows raised. "What are you doing?"
"Nothing I just thought you guys wanted to talk." Aidan stood up with his trey then reached over and picked up Lydia's. "Come Lydia." He said walking off.
Lydia watched his back as he walked to another table then turned back around to find Ethan and Danny staring at her. "I'll you guys later." She quickly says before heading over to where Aidan was now seated alone. "You could have gave me a little heads up before you jumped up like that."
"Sorry, I just didn't think they would talk if we were staring at them." Aidan says looking over Lydia's shoulder at the pair a few tables away.
"Ethan is still not going to talk because I'm sure he knows that you're listening in on them and still watching him." Lydia playfully smacked him on the face. "Stop staring at them and let them have their privacy."
"Fine." Groaned Aidan looking away and at his plate, his ears still on full alert.
...
Ethan could tell by the way his brother was sitting that he was listening in but he didn't mind, he just wanted his relationship with Danny to go back to the way it was before. "Is there anything else that you want to know about me Danny, you can ask me anything you want?"
Danny thought for a minute before looking at Ethan. "What else can you do as a werewolf?"
"I can see, hear and smell one hundred times better then as normal person could. If I get hurt I'm able to heal relatively fast, if someone is in pain I can absorb it from them." Ethan says. "I'm stronger, I'm faster, not smarter but I can tell when a person is lying to me."
"How?" Asked Danny.
"By listening to their heartbeat." Ethan looks down at his trey and remembered how fast Danny's heart was beating a few night ago. "I'm sorry I scared you that night, that's the last thing I wanted to do."
Danny nodded. "So there was never anybody else?"
Ethan shook his head. "Only you."
"Is it dangerous for you or anyone else the night of the full moon?" He asked.
"No because I know how to control that side of me." Ethan says. "I might get a little agitated sometimes but I would never hurt you. I'm still a human Danny and I'm still me. You're everything to me and I don't want to lose you or what we have together."
"Neither do I." Danny says in a low voice, unaware that Ethan had heard him. "I don't have to practice today so of you want maybe we can hang out?"
Ethan could stop the smile that quickly spread across his face. "Yeah, let's do it."
Meanwhile
Lydia had just finish tell Aidan what her plan was for them after school and when she didn't get a response from him she looked up from her phone and found Aidan looking slightly down and to his side. "Aidan...Hello Aidan." When she saw the small smile on his face she kicked him under the table with her foot, getting his attention.
"Ow." Aidan said turning to face Lydia again. "What was that for?"
"For ignoring me and spying on your brother and Danny." Lydia snaps.
Aidan scoffs and turned his focus back to his food. "I wasn't spying on them."
"So what were they saying." Lydia says after a moment of silence. "Is Danny going to give him a another chance."
"Looks like he is." Aidan says smiling. "There going to hang out after school so hopefully this means there good now."
Lydia looked past Aidan and saw Ethan making his way over to their table she smiled. "Like I said you wouldn't listen in on your brothers conversations."
Before Aidan could answer someone hit him on the back of the head. "What the hell?"
"Did you enjoy ease dropping on my conversation with Danny?" Ethan says sitting down next to him.
"I wish people would stop hitting me." Aidan says looking back at Lydia. "and besides I have no idea what you're talking about."
"If I catch you ease dropping on me again I'm going to tell Lydia that you still sleep with a Barney nightlight." Ethan then smiled. "Oops." Getting up he walked back over to his table with Danny.
Aidan glared at him as he did so. "I'm going to kill you." He knew Ethan heard him but when he heard a snicker coming from the other direction he turned back to Lydia. "It's not funny Lydia."
"I'm not laughing." Lydia says still smiling. "Besides I think its cute."
Aidan growled and got to his feet. "I'm going to kill him."
Lydia watched him go then made her way over to where Ethan and Danny were. "OMG does he really still sleep with a nightlight?"
"Yeah, its the only thing he has from out childhood so he's pretty attached to it." Ethan says.
"Now I feel bad for laughing." Lydia admits.
"Don't me, I make fun of him all the time for it." Ethan says. "He knows that I don't mean anything by it."
Lydia sighed. "Well I'm going to try and find him before he punches in a locker or something." She got up to leave but Danny grabs her arm.
"Hey." Danny says looking up her. "Thanks."
"Don't mention it." Lydia left the lunchroom in search for Aidan.
A/N Lydia and Aidan are also together if you guys didn't know. Thanks for reading and I'll have the next chapter up soon.