Bittersweet

Two

"Doll, you're home, and with Danny! Can I get you two something to eat?" my mother says as we walk through the kitchen to get to my room. "No thanks, mom" "well okay, doll. Danny, what about you?" Danny smiles politely and shakes his head. "No thanks Ms. Berton" she smiles and nods, letting us go on our way. We walked into my room and I plopped down onto my bed, along with Danny who plopped down beside me. "Danny, I am so happy that you don't have cancer. To be honest, I don't know what I would do without my best friend." He smirked slightly and said his usual cocky statement. "I know, Liz. I'm great. You could never find a best friend like me!" he said jokingly. It was rare that I could ever get a serious moment with him, so I didn't expect to have one right now. "You're one cocky dude, ya know that?" He nods then grabs my waist, pulled me over to him and began to roughly tickle me. "Dan- please stop. I- can't- breathe- it- hurts!" I say in between bursts of  laughter. He finally stopped after a few minutes of me helplessly begging. "What the heck did I do to deserve that?" "nothing, I was just super bored and we weren't doing anything to change that" he says as he laughs his butt off. I rolled my eyes and quickly jumped off my bed and walked over to my study desk. Letting him know that I was angry with him and it worked. "wait, what? Noo, come back and lay down with me. Pleasee?" he whined. "No, you made me angry" "I'm sorry. If I kissed you, would it make you feel better?" I gasped and shook my head roughly "eww, you are the last person I want to kiss" I said on an outside voice level. (wow, I sounded like a 3rd grader) "I'm greatly offended. Kissing me is not that bad!" I roll my as and scroll through instagram, stopping at Lilly's recent post. Lilly is Danny's ex girlfriend, they broke up when she cheated on him with a frat boy and she got pregnant. He loved her, and that broke his heart. I wanted to kill her for that. "Wow, Danny. Did you know Lilly had her son already?" I say shocked, and only receiving a slight sigh in return, telling me he didn't want to talk about her. "Well, if it makes you feel any better.. the dad ditched her" I say laughing. She deserved that. "Why would a child having no father make me happy in any way? Its downright sad. You of all people should know that" he says sharply. I was going to justify my words when my mother walked in. "Elizabeth, dinner is done. Come eat please, and Danny hun, you can join us if you wish" he shakes his head. "No, its getting late and I need to go home. You two have a lovely dinner." he says as he leaves through the front door.