There was already a fire going and I could smell the food as my eyes scanned the crowd of people, looking out for Aron and Amy so I could avoid being near them as much as possible but also searching out Danny.
Someone had decided that tonight was a night for Of Mice & Men and the smooth sound of My Understandings was coming from the speakers situated somewhere around here.
I knew a lot of these people or at least knew who they were but the majority were strangers to me and somehow I had managed to lose my friends the moment I stepped foot on the beach, I couldn’t see a single person that I wanted to talk to or be near.
As the song came to an end and moved on to something heavier I gave up searching and decided to go grab myself a drink instead. Dillon had only said he heard that Danny was going to be here, no that he was definitely coming. I sighed, bending over to pull up a beer when an armed snaked around my waist and I tensed up, getting ready to have to punch someone in the face.
“Relax would you Andy? It’s just me, just Danny.” Danny’s laugh was something I had missed a lot.
“Hey Daniel. How’s it going?”
He pulled a bottle opener out of his pocket and opened my beer for me before he slung an arm around my shoulders and we began to walk through the crowd.
“I’m doing okay, I got dumped yesterday but I’ll be okay.”
Although I probably shouldn’t admit to it, my heart soared at that. He was single now! It was great news to me but he didn’t seem too thrilled about it.
“And what about you Decker? How have you been?”
He gave me a look that told me he knew exactly what had happened and so I just sighed and looked at him before glancing across the fire to see Amy and Aron laughing with a bunch of people I didn’t know. It was getting too loud for me to be talking with him here so I nodded my head in the opposite direction of the party.
“I’ll tell you but not here.” I said.
“Alright, let’s go then.”
I got the feeling that I wouldn’t be making it back to my place tonight so I quickly handed the keys to Stacey as we passed her.
“You’re staying sober tonight girl… and driving them home.”
She grinned at me as she saw Danny’s arm that had once been around my shoulders had moved to my waist and he was holding on to my free hand as we carried on walking.
We walked until the party was barely visible anymore and we just sat down in the sand together.
“You got your phone on you?” He asked me and I handed it to him watching carefully as he first off changed his number from an old one to presumably a current one and then went to my music to find something suitable to listen to.
“Who the hell is Mikey Whiskey Hands?” he asked, raising an eyebrow at my phone.
“A friend. Have a listen.”
He pressed play and set my phone on his sweater after he took it off.
“Not bad, not bad. Now, tell me… how has life been treating my homegirl?”
I rolled my eyes at his choice of words but answered him all the same.
“You remember when I saw you at the airport a few years back and I looked like I was going insane?”
“Yeah, that was cause of him wasn’t it?”
Thank God he had the right idea to not use his name. I nodded.
“Well…”
I told him everything that came to mind. I told him about college, I told him about Aron and left very few things out. I told him every detail of my life from the past five years and he didn’t interrupt once.
“So, you didn’t barely look at any other guy and he just got with some other girl and didn’t even have the decency to call and tell you?”
He looked like he could barely believe it although I could barely believe it myself. That was the first time someone had said it like that.
“Man Andy that’s… Aron’s a prick. I’m sorry but it’s the truth.” He reached over and took my hand in his. “If you were my girl I could never do that to you. Hell, I would’ve moved to the area just so I could still be with you.”
I smiled and looked up at Danny’s face, he was smiling back at me and it was the best I’d felt in a long time.
“So, I was talking to Dillon a bit ago.” I tensed and bit my lip “Nothing to worry about but it was funny cause I went to him to ask advice on how to be with you…”
He trailed off and I leaned over to him and connected my lips with his.
“My place or yours?” He mumbled against my skin.
“Yours.”
A/N: Yes I know Mikey Whiskey Hands is Mike Fuentes but I may have a plan to add PTV into a chapter... maybe. Credit for the picture on the side goes to MusicIsAwesome29 because I got that from her and I felt it would be right to credit her xD Peace out bitches
