FLORIDA, danny duncan

⤷ SIXTEEN

CHAPTER SIXTEEN, down bad.

BRIELLE,

Before we went to his Cream Pies place, we went to stop to get some food. As we were there, Danny had texted the rest of the guys to pull up to the place. Sometimes I forget that some of them live here in Englewood since they're around Danny so much. He just wanted to hang around for a little and check up on the place.

We sat and stood around the tables he had around in the front. I sat next to Danny, his arm leaning on the table around me.

They were talking to each other and playing around with boys, who were fans that had showed up. I dug into my purse, trying to find my phone. My hand searched in there until I felt it, and pulled it out.

"Bri, what do you have in there?" Danny laughed. "It sounded like a whole treasure chest."

"I have my things, stuff that I carry around all the time and need."

"Can I see?"

I nodded, giving my purse to Danny. "There's not much."

He looked curious to see what was inside of it. "Not much?" He chuckled, looking at everything inside of it. "Wallet, little pouch... a fucking spike and pepper spray?"

"Just in case!" I exclaimed, "people are weirdos, you know."

"Oh, you're strapped up."

"Duh, especially when I'm out by myself."

"You don't need this around us... you have me, Josh... there's Marsh..." he laughed, making a joke indicating that everyone else was weak. 

Immediately, I regretted allowing him to look in my purse. Danny held the spike in his hand, playfully shoving it towards Kewon who flinched by it. He stood up, walking towards Kevin who was standing beside me.

"Do you think it'll hurt?" Danny asked the most obvious question. "Kevin, come here. Imagine." He laughed.

Danny turned around, suddenly punching his hand on my thigh, making me jump. He made me think he was going to do it to me, but he had the spike buried in his hand, so it was his fist that hit my leg. Danny walked up to the tree, stabbing its bark. Then he did it again, with full force. It went straight into the tree.

"Oh shit, it does work."

He pulled it out, putting the spike down on the table. He picked the pepper spray up, turned away, then let out a little spray. Everyone and I turned our heads away before it spread and got to us. Danny was like a little kid who was looking through a pile of toys.

"Wanna show a demonstration on how it works?" Danny asked me, "not on me, though."

"No, I'm not—"

"I'll get pepper sprayed by you, Brielle." One of the boys had joked. "That would be something for me to flex."

"That's crazy..." someone muttered.

"Seriously?" Danny grinned, "hundred bucks!"

I smacked my lips together, "no! Why are you always making people do dumb shit?"

Danny put his hand on his hip, "I mean, he can't die from it. Blindness is also temporary."

The boy looked like he was genuinely thinking about it. He shrugged, "yeah, I'll do it."

"Are you sure? This shit fucking burns." I said, "Don't listen to him just because he's Danny Duncan."

"The fuck is that supposed to mean?" Danny gave me a side eye.

"Fuck it. This is probably the only time I'll be hanging around him." The boy still insisted.

"Ask Kevin or someone else to do it! I don't wanna be the one to do it!" I tried to talk him out of it.

As much as I didn't want to do it, he kept suggesting I do it. I gave in and finally stood up, walking aside from everyone. He and I stood in front of each other, while he was preparing himself.

"Okay, scenario!" Danny walked up to me, putting his hand on my lower back. "You're my girlfriend, who's for some reason, without me, your boyfriend... you know cause you wouldn't need that if you were with me. I'd beat any motherfucker up on my watch," he laughed mid sentence, "—and he's a weird person who's trying to talk to you."

I slowly walked up to the boy, "I'm sorry!" I said, before I sprayed a little on his eyes.

The boy immediately walked away, putting his hands on his knees. He stood in that position, groaning in pain. Danny laughed at us, seeing how concerned I was and how in pain the boy was. He sat on the ground, spit starting to drip out of his mouth. His eyes were red as tears ran down his eyes. He looked fucking horrible.

"Give me water, or something!" He angrily said.

I grabbed a water bottle off of the table, taking the lid off and handing it to him. He poured it all over his face, letting out a low scream. Alex was always filming with the camera, he was always the real instigator.

They continuously kept giving him water. I grabbed the hose from the side of the building, holding it over his face. He laid there, just letting it run over his face, making the guys laugh. Alex was filming the whole thing.

"See," Danny Said to the camera, standing besides us, "that's what happens when you're down bad. Offer a cute girl to pepper spray you, you face the consequences. I'm starting to think everyone is down bad for her, damnit."

"No hard feelings though, Danny." The boy said, putting his hand out.

"Yeah, dude, no worries," he chuckled, "you're lucky you're already in pain... I'm kidding."

"Anyone else wanna try?" I looked at them.

"No." They all shook their heads, looking away.

—

Everyone left just before the sun went down. The rest of us went back to the house together. The boy had posted the video of me pepper spraying him, so I knew that he turned out okay. He tagged me and Danny in it. Danny reposted it on his story with a caption, "dude's crazy 😂".

We had just got done eating dinner for the night. I was the last one to finish eating, so I began to clean up the kitchen a little. It was only me in the kitchen at the moment while the boys did whatever they were doing.

I heard the garage door open and close. Danny walked into the kitchen, seeing me wipe the table down. He stood at the end of the counter, grabbing his phone off of the tables

"You could just leave everything, I'll clean it up later."

"It's okay, it wasn't too messy anyways."

I walked over to the trash can to throw away the wipes. Danny, who was standing next to it, gently touched my arm. I looked up at him and he signaled me for a kiss. I leaned in, giving him a peck on the lips. He's been so random with all of this lately.

"We'll be outside for a little, we'll come back in later."