Just A Dream

Liar

"NO, HE WAS RIGHT HERE, I SWEAR!" Danno yelled. "I'M NOT LYING, JOEY! PLEASE, I SWEAR!" "Yeah, well, you saying you found an this weird blue bunny thing with like a monkey tail and red shorts isn't very believable, y'know, Danny..." "I..." said Danno. He was starting to feel even more panicky, and he was waving his arms and hands around. He'd never done that before The Incident, but now whenever he got upset or really happy, he'd be flailing his arms around wildly like he was trying to escape from some invisible net or mess with his hair—pulling it hard when things got really bad, just fidgeting with it when he was only a little stressed. But whatever, that's not the point right now. Danno started searching for the little creature, looking under the table and chairs and around the whole room. The whole time, his breathing was getting faster and faster until he finally slumped into a chair, dizzy 'cause he couldn't catch his breath. He could hear his heartbeat in his ears. Internally he was still freaking out, but he was almost too exhausted to move. He kept thinking about all the awful stuff that might've happened to the little bunny creature. Could he have hit his head? Could he have just wandered off? Danno started tugging hard on his hair again, and his breathing was somehow getting faster. But he stopped short when Joey put his hand on Danno's forehead. Danno let out this tiny whimper—God, he absolutely couldn't stand it when people touched his head. Things touching his head, especially his FOREHEAD, reminded him of where the shelf had...

"Why are you..." Danno started but then trailed off, "No fever..." Joey mumbled. Danno's head snapped up. "I'm not sick, Joey!" He grumbled; he wrapped his arms around his chest in an attempt to slow his breathing and got his breathing from totally freaking out to kinda fast to normal, then he held his breath for the count of five and let it go. When he finished, he felt way better, but his stomach was still all twisted up. Then he heard Joey talking to someone. They're mute. They talked for a bit. Joey pointed at Danno, and their mom came over, and Danno started nervously tugging on his hair again until his mom put her hand on his hand. "Stop it. You know I hate it when you do that...are you okay? Joey said you were acting really scared..." Danno held his breath for a few seconds and then let the whole story spill out. His mum listened to the whole thing, then gave him a hug and explained it in a way that actually made sense. When she finished talking, Danno was still kinda freaked out, but her words helped calm him down. After she had made sure he was okay, there was a knock on the door; he went over to answer it. As soon as it was opened, he felt a huge grin spread across his face. There, standing in front of him, were his BEST friends (and Layha, but she was kind of a little more than a friend). THE SHORTS WARS CREW!! (Though this is set before S.W., in this A.U. they were all friends before S.W./RPK). Before he could say anything they all engulfed him in a massive bear hug. "YOU'RE OKAY!" Cdot yelled, "Yep..." said Danno shakily. "I'm...okay..." "Why'd you pause?" "Budun asked, 'I...'" said Danno. He considered telling his friends about the little creature, but then he shook his head. If Joey and his mom didn't believe him, then his friends probably wouldn't either... "I dunno..." said Danno. "Maybe some weird after-effect of, y'know, getting my head smashed in by a shelf..." Bundun still looked worried but was obviously trying to let it go. "So..." said Danno. "Did you guys come over for any particular reason?" "We came over to see YOU!" said Bam. "Layha said you were out of the hospital, so we came to see how you were doing!" "Aw..." said Danno. "Thank you guys..."